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爷爷

yé ye 2–5

(coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
爷 · 爷
Syllables
2
yé ye
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 3,099

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 爷yé6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 爺father, grandfather
  • 爷yé6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 爺father, grandfather

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 你爷爷多大了？

    Nǐ yé ye duō dà le

    How old is your grandfather?

  • 爷爷买给我的！

    Yé ye mǎi gěi wǒ de

    Grandpa bought it for me!

  • 我爷爷每天吃药。

    Wǒ yé ye měi tiān chī yào

    My grandfather takes medicine every day.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 爷爷. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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