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

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): gānbà

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄅㄚˋ

  (Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): gǎnbā

• 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/
  • (Xi'an)
    • Guanzhong Pinyin: gǎnbā
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kã²¹ pa⁵⁵/
• 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. godfather; (nominally) adoptive father

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
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	契爺
Wu	Suzhou	乾爺
	Hangzhou	乾爺
Xiang	Hengyang	乾爺