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阿爹

Mandarin · pinyin ā diē

dad
father
(paternal) grandfather
old man

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阿: ā · prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
爹: diē · father, daddy

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1–1 · a1 die1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

aa3 de1

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noun

(literary or dialectal Cantonese, Taiwanese Hokkien, Teochew, Shadi Wu) dad; papa
(Chaozhou Teochew) father-in-law (husband's father)

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