爷们 (爺們)
yé men
Pinyin

Definition

爷们 (爺們)
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yé men
  1. menfolk (collective term for men of different generations)
  2. husbands and their fathers etc

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

他们
tā men
  1. 1 they
你们
nǐ men
  1. 1 you (plural)
我们
wǒ men
  1. 1 we
  2. 2 us
  3. 3 ourselves
  4. 4 our
人们
rén men
  1. 1 people
咱们
zán men
  1. 1 we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to)
  2. 2 (dialect) I or me
  3. 3 (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you
  4. 4 also pr. [zá men]

Idioms (2)

求爷爷告奶奶
qiú yé ye gào nǎi nai
  1. 1 lit. to beg grandpa and call on grandma (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to go about begging for help
老天爷饿不死瞎家雀
lǎo tiān yé è bù sǐ xiā jiā què
  1. 1 lit. heaven won't let the sparrows go hungry (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. don't give up hope
  3. 3 if you tough it out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel

Sample Sentences

话是没错，可是我这个人吧，就是有那么点守旧的观念，一个大老爷们在家呆着算怎么回事儿啊，还是觉得女性把家整理得井井有条，把孩子养得白白胖胖比较可以接受。
huà shì méicuò ，kěshì wǒ zhè ge rén ba ，jiùshì yǒu nàme diǎnr shǒujiù de guānniàn ，yī gè dà lǎoyémen zài jiā dāizhe suàn zěnmehuíshìr ā ，háishì juéde nǚxìng bǎ jiā zhěnglǐ de jǐngjǐngyǒutiáo ，bǎ háizi yǎng de báibái pàngpàng bǐjiào kěyǐ jiēshòu 。
You're not wrong, but I'm a little bit more reactionary. How can a dude just sit at home and zone out? It's still more acceptable to me that a woman cleans up the house spick and span and raises the children to be round and chubby.
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我一个大老爷们，怎么会关心这种事?你也别老关心这些八卦，小心被洗脑了，对我，对婚姻没了信心。
wǒ yī ge dàlǎoyémenr ，zénme huì guānxīn zhèzhǒng shì ?nǐ yě bié lǎo guānxīn zhèxiē bāguà ，xiǎoxīn bèi xǐnǎo le ，duì wǒ ，duì hūnyīn méi le xìnxīn 。
I’m a man. Why would I care about that stuff? You shouldn’t care about that kind of gossip either. Be careful you don’t get brainwashed and lose your faith in me and our marriage.
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大老爷们
dàlǎoyémen
Manly man.
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