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Chinese Titles
6 CommentsChinese are very particular about how you address your relatives especially to the older generation. I am having difficulty on the Chinese titles and if you don’t know how to address them, you are disrespectful. Let me show you how complicated it gets especially in the “Cantonese family”.
I My Hubby My Children My Mom Mummy Ah Ma Por Por My Dad Ah Pa Ah Pa Goong Goong My Elder Sis Jeh Jeh Tai Yi My Elder Bro Kor Kor/By Name Kau Fu My Younger Cousins Piew Mui/Piew Sai Lo Piew Mui/Piew Sai Lo Piew Yi/Piew Kau Fu My 3rd Aunt Sam Yi sam Yi Yi Por My 2nd Uncle Kau Fu Kau Fu Kau Goong Mother In Law (MIL) Lye Lye/Ah Ma Ah Ma Ma Ma Father In Law (FIL) Low Yeah/Ah Pa Ah Pa Yeah Yeah Sister In Law (SIL) Jeh/By Name Jeh/By Name Gu Ma SIL’s Hubby Jeh Foo/By Name Jeh Foo/By Name Gu Jeong Bro In Law (BIL) ??/By Name Kor Pak Pak BIL’s Wife Ah So Ah So Mo Mo FIL Elder Bro Pak Pak Pak Pak ??Pak Goong FIL Bro Wife Mo Mo Mo Mo ??Mo Por FIL Elder Sis Gu Ma Gu Ma Gu Por FIL Sis Hubby Gu Jeong Gu Jeong Jeong Goong MIL Bro Kau Fu Kau Fu Kau Goong MIL Sis Ah Yi Ah Yi Yi Por Hubby’s Cousin Bro Piew Kor Piew Kor Piew Kau Hubby’s Cousin Bro Wife Piew So Piew So Piew Sum There are more and I am getting rather confused. For those who know, please help me to fill up the “??”.
My children will look forward to these only when Chinese New Year comes. Why? That’s when they received angpow for addressing them.
Published on March 8, 2005 · Filed under: Parenting;
6 Responses to “Chinese Titles”
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Jefferene Lee said on March 8th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
Hi, Michel, I like to read your blog, quite funny!
If not mistaken, FIL elder brother should be pak gong & wife should be pak po! I have never heard mo mo!
Me too have no idea on how to address the FIL SIS hubby!
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michelle said on March 8th, 2005 at 3:58 pm
Jeff: Thanks.
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yyhhcc said on March 10th, 2005 at 9:26 pm
i call my dad’s brother’s wife ah mo.. So, mo mo is correct.. But darn..I really dunno what to tell my baby to address her..
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lin wong said on March 11th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
i truely admire you for taking the effort to do so, i am also in your position and the thing is my hubby couldnt help much cos he address everybody either uncle, untie, ah ku or che che (he is hokkian). further more he also don remember who is who. so u can image my difficulty in recognise some of his relative cos i don’t know who they are to start with and also i don;t know how to address them, let alone teach my kids to call them.
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nflam said on March 12th, 2005 at 7:54 am
my kid call my hubby’s cousin bro… piew suk. and the wife as piew sam. My mil taught us this because comparing to hubby’s bro, cousin bro also called as suk… well, dunno if you agree with this.
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Connie said on May 26th, 2005 at 8:57 pm
Hi Michelle,
I am a cantonese too and i call my father’s brother Tai Pak and his wife Tai Pak Leong. I think your children should call your BIL Tai Pak (some call Pak Pak) and BIL’s wife Pak Leong. ( I am not heard of Mo Mo).
