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U+7956, 祖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7956

[U+7955]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7957]

U+FA50, 祖
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA50

[U+FA4F]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+FA51]
祖 U+2F953, 祖
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F953
𥘦
[U+2F952]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𥚚
[U+2F954]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 113, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈火月一 (IFBM), four-corner 37210, composition (GHTJV) or (K))

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24664
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2391, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7956

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ʔsaːʔ): semantic + phonetic (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa). Specialization of . See there for more.

Etymology[edit]

“to Zucc”
Short for 祖克柏 (Zǔkèbó, “(Mark) Zuckerberg”), from English Zuckerberg.

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter tsuX
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zou2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts]ˁaʔ/
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 10398
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsaːʔ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. ancestor; forebear; forefather
      ―    ―  to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
  2. grandparent; grandfather or grandmother
      ―    ―  paternal grandfather
  3. founder
  4. (literary) to follow the example of; to pattern after
  5. (Internet slang, usually passive voice) to ban someone on Facebook; to Zucc
  6. a surname. Zu
      ―  Chōngzhī  ―  Zu Chongzhi (Chinese astronomer and mathematician during the Liu Song and Southern Qi dynasties)
  7. (Cantonese) A transliteration of the English male given name Joe

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]


&#xFA50;
or
+&#xFE00;?
祖󠄁
+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
祖󠄃
+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji[edit]

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. founder, ancestor

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese (tsuX, ancestor).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

() (so

  1. ancestor

References[edit]

  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)[1] (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998) NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC tsuX). Recorded as Middle Korean 조〮 (cwó) (Yale: cwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 할아버지 (harabeoji jo))

  1. Hanja form? of (grandfather; ancestor).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. chữ Hán form of tổ.

Derived terms[edit]