祖

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Compounds

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

祖 (radical 113 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火月一 (IFBM), four-corner 3721₀)

1. ancestor, forefather
2. grandfather

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 841, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24664
• Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2391, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7956

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

祖 (Yale jou2)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

祖 (grade 5 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: ソ (so)
• Kun: じじ (jiji), はじめ (hajime)

[edit] Compounds

• 祖先
• 開祖

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

祖 (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

祖 (pinyin zǔ (zu3), Wade-Giles tsu³)

[edit] Compounds

• 祖辈/祖輩
• 祖产/祖産
• 祖传/祖傳
• 祖代
• 祖坟/祖墳
• 祖父
• 祖国/祖國
• 祖庙/祖廟
• 祖母
• 祖母绿/祖母綠
• 祖师/祖師
• 祖先

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[edit] Vietnamese

祖 (tố, tỏ, chỗ, tổ)

[edit] Compounds

• tố quốc [祖國]