父祖

Chinese

		father	ancestor; forefather; grandparents
simp. and trad. (父祖)		父	祖
anagram		祖父

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fùzǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ ㄗㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fùzǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ ㄗㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fùzǔ
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴-tsu³
    • Yale: fù-dzǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuhtzuu
    • Palladius: фуцзу (fuczu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹ t͡su²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

父祖

1. (literary) ancestors; forebears; forefathers; progenitor

Synonyms

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• 上輩 / 上辈 (shàngbèi)
• 上輩子 / 上辈子 (shàngbèizi)
• 先人 (xiānrén)
• 先代 (xiāndài) (literary)
• 先古 (xiāngǔ) (literary)
• 先君 (xiānjūn) (literary)
• 先祖 (xiānzǔ) (literary)
• 先輩 / 先辈 (xiānbèi)
• 公婆 (Hokkien)
• 公媽 / 公妈 (Min Nan)
• 早勻 / 早匀 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 皇考 (huángkǎo) (archaic)
• 祖上 (zǔshàng)
• 祖先 (zǔxiān)
• 祖公 (Hokkien)
• 祖宗 (zǔzōng)
• 老祖宗
• 老輩 / 老辈 (lǎobèi)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
父	祖
ふ Grade: 2	そ Grade: 5
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
父祖 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟so̞]

Noun

父(ふ)祖(そ) • (fuso) 

1. ancestor, one's ancestors

   Synonyms: 先祖, 祖先

2. one's father and grandfather

Related terms

• 祖父(そふ) (sofu, “grandfather”)
• 父(ちち) (chichi, “father”)