爹娘

Chinese

		dad	mother; young lady
trad. (爹娘)		爹	娘
simp. #(爹娘)		爹	娘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diēniáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄝ ㄋㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): de¹ noeng⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tia-niû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diēniáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄝ ㄋㄧㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dieniáng
    • Wade–Giles: tieh¹-niang²
    • Yale: dyē-nyáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dieniang
    • Palladius: денян (denjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛ⁵⁵ ni̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: de¹ noeng⁴
    • Yale: dē nèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: de¹ noeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: dé¹ nêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛː⁵⁵ nœːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia-niû
    • Tâi-lô: tia-niû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dianiuu
    • IPA (Taipei): /tia⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tia⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²³/

Noun

爹娘

1. (dialectal) father and mother; parents

   • 我的家在東北松花江上，那裡有我的同胞，還有那衰老的爹娘。 [MSC, trad.]
     我的家在东北松花江上，那里有我的同胞，还有那衰老的爹娘。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1936, 張寒暉, 《松花江上》 (Along the Songhua River)

     Wǒ de jiā zài Dōngběi Sōnghuājiāng shàng, nàlǐ yǒu wǒ de tóngbāo, háiyǒu nà shuāilǎo de diēniáng. [Pinyin]

     I live along the Songhua River on Northeast China, where my siblings and senile parents also reside.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 父母 (“father and mother; parents”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		父母, 爺娘, 怙恃, 雙親
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		父母, 雙親, 父母親
Mandarin	Beijing	爹媽
	Taiwan	爸媽
	Yantai (Muping)	老兒的
	Jinan	老的兒, 爹媽
	Xi'an	媽爸
	Yinchuan	娘老子
	Lanzhou	娘老子, 老漢們
	Ürümqi	娘老子
	Wuhan	娘老子, 兩老
	Chengdu	娘老子, 媽老漢兒
	Chongqing	媽老漢兒
	Liuzhou	娘老子
	Yangzhou	娘老子
	Nanjing	娘老子
	Nantong	爺娘
	Singapore	爸媽, 家長
Cantonese	Guangzhou	老豆老母
	Hong Kong	老豆老母, 爹哋媽咪, 阿爸阿媽
	Yangjiang	老子阿奶
Gan	Nanchang	爺娘
	Pingxiang	娘爺
Hakka	Meixian	爺哀
	Xingning	爺哀
	Huidong (Daling)	阿爸阿姆
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	阿姆阿爸
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	爺哀
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	阿爸阿姆
	Liannan	爺哀
	Jiexi	爺哀
	Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)	爺哀
	Changting	爹哀, 爺哀
	Wuping	爺哀
	Wuping (Yanqian)	爺哀
	Wuping (Pingyu)	爺哀
	Ninghua	爹母
	Ningdu	爹姐
	Ruijin	哀爹, 爺娘, 爺哀
	Shicheng	爹哀
	Shangyou (Shexi)	爺姐
	Tonggu (Sandu)	娘爺
	Ganzhou (Panlong)	爺姐
	Dayu	爺佬姐佬
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	爺哀, 爺娘, 兩老
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	爺哀, 爺娘, 兩老
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	爺哀, 爺娘, 兩老
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	爺哀, 爺娘, 兩老
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	爺哀, 爺娘, 兩老
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	爺哀, 爺母, 兩老
	Hong Kong	阿爸阿姆
	Yangxi (Tangkou)	老子阿奶
	Yangchun (Sanjia)	父母
	Xinyi (Sihe)	爺哀
	Xinyi (Qianpai)	爺哀
	Gaozhou (Xindong)	爸媽
	Maoming (Shalang, Dianbai)	父母親
	Huazhou (Xin'an)	爺哀
	Lianjiang (Shijiao)	爺哀, 爸哀
	Lianjiang (Qingping)	爸哀
	Luchuan	爸媽
Huizhou	Jixi	娘老子, 老子娘, 老子爺娘
Jin	Taiyuan	爹娘
	Xinzhou	老子娘
Northern Min	Jian'ou	爹奶
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	爸奶
	Matsu	爸奶
Southern Min	Xiamen	爸母, 老爸母
	Quanzhou	爸母, 老爸母
	Jinjiang	爸母
	Zhangzhou	爸母, 老爸母
	Zhao'an	爸母
	Taipei	爸母
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	爸母
	Kaohsiung	爸母
	Yilan	爸母
	Changhua (Lukang)	爸母
	Taichung	爸母
	Tainan	爸母
	Hsinchu	爸母
	Kinmen	爸母
	Penghu (Magong)	爸母
	Penang (Hokkien)	爸母
	Singapore (Hokkien)	爸母
	Manila (Hokkien)	爸母
	Chaozhou	父嬡, 爸母
	Jieyang	父嬡
	Singapore (Teochew)	爸母
Wu	Shanghai	爺娘
	Suzhou	爺娘
	Danyang	娘啊老子, 爺娘 rare
	Hangzhou	娘老子
	Ningbo	爹娘
	Wenzhou	奶阿伯, 阿伯奶
Xiang	Changsha	爺娘
	Shuangfeng	爺娘