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祖 kanji
ancestor, pioneer, founder
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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On readings
ソ
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
祖Words with 祖
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N4祖父Populargrandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
- N4祖母Populargrandmother
- N2先祖Popularancestor; forefather; foremother
- N2祖先Popularancestor
- —祖Popularancestor; forefather; progenitor; originator; pioneer; inventor; founder; grandfather
- —教祖Popularfounder of a religious sect
- —元祖Popularoriginator; pioneer; inventor; founder; progenitor; primogenitor; founder of a family line
- —宗祖Popularsect founder
- —祖国Popularhomeland; motherland; fatherland; native country
- —祖父母Populargrandparents
- —遠祖remote ancestor; forefather
- —開祖(sect) founder; apostle; originator; inventor
- —始祖founder; originator; pioneer
- —人祖progenitor
- —祖型archetype; prototype
- —太祖founder; progenitor; emperor
- —天祖the ancestral Sun Goddess
- —同祖common ancestry; sharing a common ancestor
- —鼻祖founder; originator; introducer
- —仏祖Founder of Buddhism