Kanji1 / 9
祖 kanji
ancestor, pioneer, founder
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ソ
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
祖Words with 祖
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —始祖鳥Archaeopteryx; extinct genus of early birds
- —亡祖父deceased grandfather; (one's) late grandfather
- —曽祖父great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad
- —曾祖母great-grandmother; great-grandma
- —高祖父great-great-grandfather
- —祖国愛patriotism
- —道祖神traveler's guardian deity (traveller)
- —外祖母maternal grandmother
- —高祖母great-great-grandmother
- —祖師禅Zen Buddhism based on the teachings of Bodhidharma
- —皇祖考deceased grandfather of the emperor
- —皇祖妣deceased grandmother of the emperor
- —義祖母grandmother-in-law
- —義祖父grandfather-in-law
- —祖霊舎shrine for worshiping the spirits of ancestors
- —先祖伝来inherited; family (heirloom); ancestral
- —祖国復帰returning to one's fatherland
- —祖先崇拝ancestor worship
- —中興の祖restorer of a dynasty; ancestor who rejuvenated a family
- —祖先伝来hereditary