乾爸

Chinese

		dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname	father; dad; pa father; dad; pa; papa
trad. (乾爸)		乾	爸
simp. (干爸)		干	爸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gānbà

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄅㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gon¹ baa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gānbà
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ ㄅㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ganbà
    • Wade–Giles: kan¹-pa⁴
    • Yale: gān-bà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganbah
    • Palladius: ганьба (ganʹba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ pä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gon¹ baa¹
    • Yale: gōn bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gon¹ baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gon¹ ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːn⁵⁵ paː⁵⁵/

Noun

乾爸

1. adoptive father

Synonyms

• 乾爹／干爹 (gāndiē)
• (Cantonese) 契爺／契爷
• (Northern Min) 老爹
• (Eastern Min) 義郎爸／义郎爸
• (Hokkien, Teochew) 契爸