少爺

See also: 少爷

Chinese

		young; few; little young; few; little; lack	grandpa; etc.; old gentleman
trad. (少爺)		少	爺
simp. (少爷)		少	爷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shàoyé

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠˋ ㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu³ je⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siàu-iâ
• Wu (Suzhou, Wugniu): ¹sau₃-ya₂

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shàoyé → shàoye (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠˋ ㄧㄝˊ → ㄕㄠˋ ˙ㄧㄝ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shàoye̊
    • Wade–Giles: shao⁴-yeh⁵
    • Yale: shàu-ye
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaw.ye
    • Palladius: шаое (šaoje)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ jɛ³⁵/ → /ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ jɛ¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu³ je⁴
    • Yale: siu yèh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu³ je⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu³ yé⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³³ jɛː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siàu-iâ
    • Tâi-lô: siàu-iâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siao'iaa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau²¹⁻⁵³ ia²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ ia²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau²¹⁻⁵³ ia¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau¹¹⁻⁵³ ia²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau²¹⁻⁴¹ ia²³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ¹sau₃-ya₂
    • MiniDict: sau^上 ya^平
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /sæ⁴⁴ ɦiɑ/

Noun

少爺

1. young master (form of address formerly used by a servant to address his or her master's son)
2. young man (often pampered) from a wealthy or noble family
3. (archaic, honorific) (somebody's, your) son

Synonyms

• 小爺／小爷

Derived terms

• 少爺仔 / 少爷仔
• 空中少爺 / 空中少爷 (kōngzhōng shàoyé)

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “少爺”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• “少爺”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.