祖 (zǔ)
ancestor; grandfather
How 祖 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 礻 — sign
- Traditional
- 祖
- Simplified
- 祖 (unchanged)
Common words using 祖
- 佛祖 fózǔ
- Buddha; founder of a buddhist sect
- 祖國 zǔguó
- ancestral land; homeland; used for PRC
- 祖宗 zǔzōng
- ancestor; forebear
- 始祖 shǐzǔ
- primogenitor; founder of a school or trade
- 媽祖 māzǔ
- Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia
- 王祖賢 wángzǔxián
- Joey Wong (actress)
- 祖傳 zǔchuán
- passed on from ancestors; handed down from generation to generation
- 祖先 zǔxiān
- ancestor; forebears
- 祖墳 zǔfén
- ancestral tomb
- 祖母 zǔmǔ
- father's mother; paternal grandmother
- 祖父 zǔfù
- father's father; paternal grandfather
- 祖籍 zǔjí
- ancestral hometown; original domicile (and civil registration)
祖 in a sentence
清明節的時候，我們會去祭拜祖先。
Qīngmíngjié de shíhòu, wǒmen huì qù jìbài zǔxiān.
“During the Tomb Sweeping Festival, we go to worship our ancestors.”
How common is 祖?
祖 is the 1,023rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.5% of all running text.
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