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祖 : Ancestor

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Components:
礻且

ancestor, pioneer, founder

On 'yomi:
ソ(so)
Nanori:
い(i)
Strokes:9
Radical:礻 (113)
Usage Rating:1226
JLPT:N3
old JLPT:2
Grade:5
Unicode:07956
jis208:33-36
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祖 Usage examples

医学の祖(いがくのそ)founder of medical science
先祖の位牌(せんぞのいはい)ancestral tablet
大祖父(おおおおじ)great-grandfather
日猶同祖論(にちユどうそろん)
日ユ同祖論(にちユどうそろん)		hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry
祖(そ)ancestor, forefather, progenitor
お祖父ちゃん(おじいちゃん)grandpa, granddad
お祖母ちゃん(おばあちゃん)
御祖母ちゃん(おばあちゃん)		granny, grandma, gran, female senior-citizen
先祖代代(せんぞだいだい)
先祖代々(せんぞだいだい)		ancestral, hereditary, generation after generation, passing from father to son
御祖師様(おそしさま)the Founder of the (our) sect (used especially in the Nichiren sect of Buddhism, referring to Nichiren)
父祖伝来(ふそでんらい)hereditary, patrimonial, handed down from generation to generation
先祖伝承(せんぞでんしょう)what has been (orally) handed down from generation to generation, legend, folk tale
祖先の霊(そせんのれい)ancestral spirits
初祖(しょそ)the first generation of a family, school (of thought) or religious sect
祖霊(それい)ancestor deified as a kami, spirit of a kami
名祖(なおや)eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)
インド・ヨーロッパ祖語(インドヨーロッパそご)
インドヨーロッパ祖語(インドヨーロッパそご)		Proto-Indo-European (hypothetical language from which all Indo-European languages are derived)
印欧祖語(いんおうそご)Proto-Indo-European (hypothetical language from which all Indo-European languages are derived)