Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "祖" in Portrait Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "祖" in Landscape Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Pinyin
zǔ
Definition
ancestor / forefather / grandparents
grandfather's younger brother
Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia
primogenitor / founder of a school or trade
mother's mother / maternal grandmother
Buddha / founder of a buddhist sect
father's father / paternal grandfather
maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
ancestral hometown / original domicile (and civil registration)
Zu Chongzhi (429-500), astronomer and mathematician
ancestors / forefathers / ancestry
deceased grandfather / ancestry
the earliest ancestor / originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)