祖家

Chinese

		ancestor; forefather; grandparents	home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
simp. and trad. (祖家)		祖	家

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǔjiā

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou² gaa¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chú-kâ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chó͘-ke

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zou² gê¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǔjiā
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǔjia
    • Wade–Giles: tsu³-chia¹
    • Yale: dzǔ-jyā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuujia
    • Palladius: цзуцзя (czuczja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zou² gaa¹
    • Yale: jóu gā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou² gaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou² ga¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯³⁵ kaː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chú-kâ
    • Hakka Romanization System: zu` ga´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zu³ ga¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡su³¹ ka²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó͘-ke
    • Tâi-lô: tsóo-ke
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zofkef
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ke³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zou² gê¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsóu ke
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou⁵²⁻³⁵ ke³³/

Noun

祖家

1. (literary) family descended from the same ancestor
2. (chiefly Cantonese) homeland; land of one's ancestors
3. (colonial Hong Kong, colonial Singapore, Christianity in Taiwan, historical) Britain or England
   • 1886, Lim Hiong Seng, Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press:

     在祖家有多多女人，賢過男人。 [Teochew, trad.]
     在祖家有多多女人，贤过男人。 [Teochew, simp.]

     do⁶ zou² gê¹ u⁶ gê¹ gê¹ ze¹ niê⁵, ghao⁵ guê³ da¹ bou¹. [Peng'im]

     There are many ladies in England cleverer than men.

   • 1912, James Dyer Ball, How to Speak Cantonese‎^[1]:

     事頭舊年翻去歸祖家 [Cantonese, trad.]
     事头旧年翻去归祖家 [Cantonese, simp.]

     si⁶ tau^4-2 gau⁶ nin^4-2 faan¹ heoi³ gwai¹ zou² gaa¹ [Jyutping]

     He went home to England last year

   • 1933, 連橫 (Lián Héng), 雅言 [yǎyán]‎^[2]:

     其最壞者，則稱英國為「祖家」、謂英國之貨為「祖家貨」，竟自忘其為何國人，哀哉！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     其最坏者，则称英国为「祖家」、谓英国之货为「祖家货」，竟自忘其为何国人，哀哉！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Qí zuì huài zhě, zé chēng yīngguó wèi “zǔjiā”, wèi yīngguó zhī huò wèi “zǔjiāhuò”, jìng zì wàng qí wèi hé guó rén, āizāi! [Pinyin]

     The worst is that [Taiwanese Christians] call England "the motherland", and refer to English goods as "goods of the motherland", forgetting their identity as countrymen!

4. (Mainland China Hokkien) hometown; native place
5. (Mainland China Hokkien) ancestral home; original family home

Synonyms

• (hometown): 故里 (gùlǐ), 家鄉／家乡 (jiāxiāng)
• (ancestral home): 祖籍 (zǔjí), 原籍 (yuánjí)