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老爹

Mandarin · pinyin lǎo diē

(dialect) father
old man
sir

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老: lǎo · old, aged; experienced; Kangxi radical 125
爹: diē · father, daddy

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3–1 · lao3 die1

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noun

(dialectal) old man; grandpa; granddad
(dialectal) father
(Northern Min) adoptive father
(Puxian Min, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, historical) term of address for a government official (such as a mandarin bureaucrat)
(Taiwan) Chef (a character from South Park) in the Mandarin dub of the show.

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