乾爹

See also: 干爹

Chinese

		dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname	dad
trad. (乾爹)		乾	爹
simp. (干爹)		干	爹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gāndiē

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄉㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gon¹ de¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gāndiē
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ ㄉㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gandie
    • Wade–Giles: kan¹-tieh¹
    • Yale: gān-dyē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gandie
    • Palladius: ганьде (ganʹde)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ ti̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gon¹ de¹
    • Yale: gōn dē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gon¹ de¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gon¹ dé¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːn⁵⁵ tɛː⁵⁵/

Noun

乾爹

1. godfather; (nominally) adoptive father
2. (neologism) sugar daddy

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 乾爸 (“godfather; (nominally) adoptive father”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		乾爸, 乾爹, 義父
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	乾爸爸, 乾爹
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	乾爸
	Xi'an	乾爸
	Xuzhou	乾爺, 乾爹
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	乾爹
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	乾爹
	Liuzhou	乾爹, 契爺
Cantonese	Guangzhou	契爺
	Hong Kong	契爺
	Dongguan	契爺
Gan	Nanchang	乾爺
	Lichuan	契爺
Hakka	Meixian	契爺
Northern Min	Jian'ou	老爹
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	義郎爸
Southern Min	Xiamen	契爸
	Quanzhou	契爸
	Jinjiang	契爸
	Zhangzhou	契爸
	Manila (Hokkien)	契爸
	Jieyang	契爸
Puxian Min	Putian	結義的老爸
	Xianyou	結義的老爸
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	契爺
Wu	Suzhou	乾爺
	Hangzhou	乾爺
Xiang	Hengyang	乾爺

• (sugar daddy): (Cantonese) 契爺／契爷

Antonyms

• 乾媽／干妈 (gānmā)
• 乾娘／干娘 (gānniáng)