Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zǔ
- Zǔ
English
- ancestor, forefather
- surname Zu
- ancestor
- grandfather
- forefather
- grandparents
- ancestor
- originator of crafts or thoughts
粵語
- 先人
- 創立一門手藝、一個派別嘅人
As a component in
Words containing 祖
- 祖父zou2 fu6
father's father
- 祖師zou2 si1
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
- 始祖ci2 zou2
primogenitor
- 祖國zou2 gwok3
motherland
- 祖屋zou2 uk1
ancestral house
- 祖先zou2 sin1
ancestors; forebears
- 祖母zou2 mou5
father's mother; paternal grandmother
- 祖宗zou2 zung1
ancestor
- 媽祖maa1 zou2
Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia
- 佛祖fat6 zou2
Buddha
- 祭祖zai3 zou2
to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
- 二世祖ji6 sai3 zou2
profligate child of a wealthy family
- 祖墳zou2 fan4
ancestral tomb
- 祖傳zou2 cyun4
passed on from ancestors
- 祖籍zou2 zik6
ancestral hometown
- 老祖lou5 zou2
ancestor (spoken)
- 祖祠zou2 ci4
shrine dedicated to one's ancestors
- 外祖母ngoi6 zou2 mou5
mother's mother
- 曾祖父zang1 zou2 fu6
father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather
- 外祖父ngoi6 zou2 fu6
maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
- 曾祖母zang1 zou2 mou5
father's father's mother; paternal great-grandmother
- 元祖jyun4 zou2
primogenitor
- 祖業zou2 jip6
property handed down from one's ancestors
- 師祖si1 zou2
teacher of one's teacher (esp. in a lineage)