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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *从* | 从* | *从
from; through; via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
HSK 1
father's father / paternal grandfather
HSK 6
(coll.) paternal grandfather; grandpa
HSK 1
(coll.) mother's father; maternal grandfather
HSK 7-9
(respectful) lord / master / (coll.) maternal grandfather
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
(of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather
(literary) my deceased grandfather / (literary) ancestors
(coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather
HSK 7-9
father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
head of a family / (polite) my father / (polite) my grandfather / your esteemed father
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曾* | 曾* | *曾
great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)
great-grandfather / (old) grandfather / father
(dialect) maternal grandfather
grandfather's younger brother
(respectful for) one's grandfather / sb's father / older people / the head of the house (used by servants) / a district magistrate
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother
(coll.) father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander
(polite) my paternal grandfather
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
great-great-grandfather
honorific term for one's deceased father / (arch.) great-great-grandfather
having the same paternal grandfather but different father
great-grandfather (father of one's paternal grandfather)
dad / father / (paternal) grandfather / old man
great-grandfather (mother's grandfather)


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