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HSK
motherland
HSK 6
father's mother; paternal grandmother
HSK 6
father's father / paternal grandfather
HSK 6
ancestor / forebear
HSK 7-9
ancestral hometown / original domicile (and civil registration)
HSK 7-9
passed on from ancestors / handed down from generation to generation
HSK 7-9
ancestors; forebears / (biology) ancestral species; ancient species from which present-day species evolved
HSK 7-9
ancestral house
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *祖* | 祖* | *祖
surname Zu
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *祖* | 祖* | *祖
ancestor / forefather / grandparents
Zulu
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
ancestral tomb
ancestors / forefathers / ancestry
emerald
ancestral tomb
for generations / from generation to generation
former residence / one's original home
paternal grandparents
Zu Chongzhi (429-500), astronomer and mathematician
Zuma (name) / Jacob Zuma (1942-), South African ANC politician, vice-president 1999-2005, president 2009-2018
movement to restore the fatherland
Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (North Korean)
father's father's sister / great aunt
ancestral house
people of one's grandparents' generation
shrine dedicated to one's ancestors
ancestry / lineage / pedigree / also written 祖係|祖系
proto-language / parent language (linguistics)
Zulu people
dinosaur ancestor of birds
dinosaur ancestors of birds


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