祖

Translingual

Etymology

礻 + 且: two altars.

Han character

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

1. ancestor(s), progenitor(s), forefather(s)/mother(s)
2. grandfather(s)/mother(s)

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

祖 (Yale jou2)

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Japanese

Kanji

祖 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

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

Compounds

• 祖先
• 開祖

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

祖 (pinyin zǔ (zu3), Wade-Giles tsu³)

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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Vietnamese

Noun

祖

1. Hán form of tổ

Compounds

• 祖國 (tố quốc)