爸爸
bà ba
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Dad, father: what children of any age call their father, and the everyday word for anyone's father. The second syllable has a neutral tone: bàba. 我爸爸 is 'my dad'; with family members 的 is usually dropped. The formal word is 父亲 fùqīn.
Bố, ba, cha: từ con cái dùng để gọi bố, cũng là từ thông thường để nói về bố của ai đó. Âm tiết thứ hai đọc thanh nhẹ: bàba. 我爸爸 là “bố tôi” (nói về người thân thường bỏ 的). Từ trang trọng hơn là 父亲 fùqīn.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 爸 = ba · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “爸爸” mean?
Dad, father: what children of any age call their father, and the everyday word for anyone's father. The second syllable has a neutral tone: bàba. 我爸爸 is 'my dad'; with family members 的 is usually dropped. The formal word is 父亲 fùqīn.
Is “爸爸” formal or informal?
爸爸 is generally neutral.