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

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/

Noun

少爺

young master (form of address formerly used by a servant to address his or her master's son)
young man (often pampered) from a wealthy or noble family
(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
“Entry #1103”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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