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祖

祖

Translingual

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 祖

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 祖
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 則古切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡suoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡suoX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡soX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sɔX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡soX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡suX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡suoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祖
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤaʔ/
English 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 祖
Reading # 1/1
No. 10398
Phonetic
component		 且
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 祖
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsaːʔ/

Noun

祖

  1. ancestor
  2. grandparent
  3. forefather

Proper noun

祖

  1. A surname​. Zu

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

祖

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. founder

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
祖
そ
Grade: 5
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 祖 ‎(tsuX, “ancestor”).

Pronunciation

Noun

祖 ‎(hiragana そ, romaji so)

  1. ancestor

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

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

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 祖
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (且) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
虘 *zaːl, *zaː
蔖 *zlaːl, *sʰaːʔ
摣 *rnaː, *ʔsraː
袓 *ʔsjaː, *zaʔ
怚 *ʔsjaː, *ʔsas, *zaʔ
罝 *ʔsjaː
謯 *ʔslja, *ʔsraːʔ
姐 *ʔsjaːʔ
抯 *ʔsljaːʔ, *ljaːʔ, *ʔsraː
飷 *ʔsjaːʔ
且 *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa
趄 *sʰjaːs, *sʰa
笡 *sʰjaːs
查 *ʔsraː, *zraː, *zraː
柤 *ʔsraː
樝 *ʔsraː
皻 *ʔsraː
渣 *ʔsraː
楂 *zraː
苴 *zraː, *ʔsa, *ʔsaʔ, *sʰa
駔 *ʔslaːŋʔ, *zaːʔ
租 *ʔsaː
蒩 *ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa
祖 *ʔsaːʔ
組 *ʔsaːʔ
珇 *ʔsaːʔ
靻 *ʔsaːʔ
粗 *sʰaː, *zaːʔ
徂 *zaː
殂 *zaː
麆 *zaːʔ, *zras
伹 *zaːʔ, *sʰa
蛆 *ʔsa, *sʰa
沮 *ʔsa, *ʔsas, *sʰa, *zaʔ, *ʔsra
咀 *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ
疽 *sʰa
雎 *sʰa
狙 *sʰa, *sʰas
岨 *sʰa
砠 *sʰa
坥 *sʰa, *sʰas
刞 *sʰas
覰 *sʰas
覷 *sʰas
跙 *zaʔ
筯 *das
菹 *ʔsra
葅 *ʔsra
阻 *ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
俎 *ʔsraʔ
詛 *ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
鉏 *zra, *zraʔ
豠 *zra
鋤 *zra
耡 *zra, *zras
齟 *zraʔ
助 *zras

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsaːʔ) : semantic 示 + phonetic 且 ‎(OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa): two altars.

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