(respectful) lord; master; (coll.) maternal grandfather

God; Heavens

son of the boss; young master of the house; your son (honorific)

arrogant idler; self-centered show-off

(coll.) father's older brother; uncle; term of respect for older man

prince; marquis; nobleman

grandpa; old gentleman

(polite) elderly man

menfolk (collective term for men of different generations); husbands and their fathers etc

my (your etc) old father; polite appellation for an elderly male

title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father; nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]

(historical) privately hired legal or administrative advisor to a government official; teacher's teacher (in academic lineage)

classic car

erhua variant of 爺們|爷们[ye2 men5]

Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]); His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee); Buddha; God; emperor; in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]

(dialect) father's older brother; uncle

big talker

(coll.) a profiteer; (business) wheeler-dealer

(dialect) maternal grandfather

(respectful for) one's grandfather; sb's father; older people; the head of the house (used by servants); a district magistrate

son-in-law (used by wife's family); uncle (husband of father's sister)

(coll.) mother's father; maternal grandfather

(old) a term servants used to refer to their master

(coll.) father and his child

topless guy (man who, in a public place, is not wearing a shirt)

father's maternal uncle; granduncle

see 老天爺|老天爷[lao3 tian1 ye2]

(coll.) father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather

nickname for official

master of martial arts, in former times often employed by a landlord to teach fighting skills and guard the house; (fig.) sb who arrogantly and condescendingly lectures others

(coll.) pedicab driver

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen; also written 灶神

founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)

uncle; grandpa; CL:位[wei4]

elderly gentleman (respectful); esteemed father

Chinese name for Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russia's Primorsky Krai around Vladivostok

god of wealth; very wealthy man

(Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell

term used in Taiwan for 黑白無常|黑白无常[Hei1 Bai2 Wu2 chang2]

airline steward

my lord (respectful form of address for an official or a magistrate in imperial China)

lit. to beg grandpa and call on grandma (idiom); fig. to go about begging for help

lit. the child sells the father's farm without regret (idiom); fig. to sell one's inheritance without a second thought for how hard one's forebears worked for it

lit. heaven won't let the sparrows go hungry (idiom); fig. don't give up hope; if you tough it out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel