爹 — Chinese character
爹
diē
father, dad, daddy
- Pinyin
- diē
- Radical
- 88 ⽗ (Father)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 父 多
- Formation
- pictophonetic — father; meaning component 父; sound component 多
Common words with 爹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老爹 | lǎo diē | (dialect) father; old man |
| 干爹 (乾爹) | gān diē | adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) |
| 爹爹 | diē die | daddy; granddad |
| 坑爹 | kēng diē | to get one's father involved in a difficult situation; (vulgar) (of sth that makes one feel misled or let down etc) to be a big disappointment |
| 爹娘 | diē niáng | (dialect) parents |
| 爹地 | diē dì | daddy (loanword) |
| 亲爹 (親爹) | qīn diē | biological father; real dad |
| 阿爹 | ā diē | dad; father |
| 公爹 | gōng diē | husband's father |
| 姑爹 | gū diē | husband of father's sister; uncle |
| 沙爹 | shā diē | satay (sauce) |
| 喜当爹 (喜當爹) | xǐ dāng diē | (neologism c. 2012) (slang) to become a stepfather when one's partner turns out to be pregnant with a child she conceived with another lover |
English words written with 爹
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.