老太爺 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 老太爷 lǎotàiyé ㄌㄠˇ ㄊㄞˋ ㄧㄝˊ elderly gentleman (respectful) esteemed father Character by character 老(lǎo)prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity 太(tài)too 爺(yé)grandpa A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0