祖

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 示 + phonetic 且: two altars.

Han character

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

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		祖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǔ (zu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ):
• Min Nan (POJ): chó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: tsu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡su²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zou²
    • Yale: jóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsó͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (祖, reconstructed)
Character (祖), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 則古切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡suoX/	/t͡suoX/	/t͡soX/	/t͡suoX/	/t͡sɔX/	/t͡suX/	/t͡soX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (祖, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
祖								zǔ								‹ tsuX ›								/*[ts]ˤaʔ/								ancestor
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
祖					10398					且					魚					0					祖					/*ʔsaːʔ/

Noun

祖

1. ancestor
2. grandparent
3. forefather

Proper noun

祖

1. A surname​. Zu

Compounds

• 祖辈 (zǔbèi)
• 祖产 (zǔchǎn)
• 祖传 (zǔchuán)
• 祖代 (zǔdài)
• 祖坟 (zǔfén)
• 祖父 (zǔfù)
• 祖国 (zǔguó)
• 祖庙 (zǔmiào)
• 祖母 (zǔmǔ)
• 祖母绿 (zǔmǔlǜ)
• 祖师 (zǔshī)
• 祖先 (zǔxiān)

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Japanese

Kanji

祖

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

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

Compounds

• 祖先
• 開祖

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Noun

祖

1. Hán tự form of tổ

Compounds

• 祖國 (tố quốc)