爸爸
Meaning
- (coll.) father; dad
Measure word
位 wèi
Example sentence
我爸爸是老师。
My dad is a teacher.
Characters in 爸爸
- 爸 bà father, dad
爸 father, doubled. Chinese reduplicates the closest kinship terms — 妈妈, 哥哥, 姐姐, 弟弟, 妹妹 — and the doubling is what makes them the everyday spoken words rather than the formal 父亲.