祖
Meanings
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- 1.ancestor
- 2.forefather
- 3.grandparents
- 1.surname Zu
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Wiktionary
- 1.ancestor; forebear; forefather
- 2.One of the two suffixes of emperors' temple names.
- 3.grandparent; grandfather or grandmother
- 4.founder
- 5.to follow the example of; to pattern after
- 6.to ban someone on Facebook; to Zucc
- 7.a surname, Zu
- 8.a transliteration of the English male given name Joe
- 9.penis
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsaːʔ): semantic 示 + phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa). Specialization of 且. See there for more. ;forebear, ancestor :Outside Chinese, compare Rakhine အဇူအဇာ (“ancestor, forefather”). ;“to Zucc”
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Stroke order
Components
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Derived terms
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Related words
祖国 motherland祖先 ancestors; forebears祖父 father's father祖母 father's mother; paternal grandmother祖宗 ancestor祖传 passed on from ancestors祖籍 ancestral hometown正祖 Jeonjo (1752-1800), 22nd king of Korean Joseon dynasty先祖 (literary) my deceased grandfather曾祖 great-grandfather (father of one's paternal grandfather)显祖 ancestors (old)马祖 Matsu Islands off Fujian, administered by Taiwan