祖

How to write 祖, stroke by stroke

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What 祖 means

surname Zu; ancestor; forefather; grandparents

Pictophonetic: semantic 礻 (spirit), phonetic 且

Made of 礻 + 且

Words with 祖

• 祖母zǔ mǔfather's mother; paternal grandmother
• 祖父zǔ fùfather's father; paternal grandfather
• 祖先zǔ xiānancestors; forebears; (biology) ancestral species; ancient species from which present-day species evolved
• 祖国zǔ guómotherland
• 曾祖父zēng zǔ fùfather's father's father; paternal great-grandfather
• 祖父母zǔ fù mǔpaternal grandparents
• 祖宗zǔ zōngancestor; forebear
• 始祖shǐ zǔprimogenitor; founder of a school or trade
• 曾祖母zēng zǔ mǔfather's father's mother; paternal great-grandmother
• 祖传zǔ chuánpassed on from ancestors; handed down from generation to generation
• 外祖父wài zǔ fùmaternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
• 先祖xiān zǔ(literary) my deceased grandfather; (literary) ancestors

祖 in a sentence

• 我的祖父早起。

  wǒ de zǔ fù zǎo qǐ 。

  My grandfather gets up early.

• 他们为祖国而战斗。

  tā men wèi zǔ guó ér zhàn dòu 。

  They fought for the sake of their country.

• 我祖母独自生活。

  wǒ zǔ mǔ dú zì shēng huó 。

  My grandmother lives by herself.

• 祖母非常喜欢看电视。

  zǔ mǔ fēi cháng xǐ huan kàn diàn shì 。

  Grandmother takes great delight in watching television.

• 祖父的年龄比我大五倍。

  zǔ fù de nián líng bǐ wǒ dà wǔ bèi 。

  My grandfather is five times as old as I am.

Characters that sound like 祖

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