青天大老爺 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 青天大老爷 qīngtiāndàlǎoye ㄑㄧㄥ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄠˇ ˙ㄧㄝ my lord (respectful form of address for an official or a magistrate in imperial China) Character by character 青(qīng)short name for Qinghai 青海 qīnghǎi 天(tiān)day 大(dà)big 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 爺(ye)grandpa A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0