Chinese symbol for “grandfather”
阿公
ā gōng
(old) grandfather; polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law; (Taiwanese) grandfather
The closest CC-CEDICT match for grandfather is 阿公 (ā gōng), defined as: (old) grandfather; polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law; (Taiwanese) grandfather.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “grandfather”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 阿公.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿姨 | ā yí | maternal aunt; term of address for a woman of one's mother's generation |
| 阿拉 | ā lā | (Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our |
| 阿门 (阿門) | ā mén | (loanword) amen |
| 阿尔法 (阿爾法) | ā ěr fǎ | alpha (Greek letter Α, α) |
| 阿哥 | ā gē | (familiar) elder brother |
| 阿尔卑斯 (阿爾卑斯) | ā ěr bēi sī | alps (mountain range) |
| 公司 | gōng sī | company; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
See also: Japanese symbol for “grandfather”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.