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
- —先祖構造体ancestor structure
- —伝持の八祖the eight doctrinal patriarchs who expounded the teachings (Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Yi Xing, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)
- —付法の八祖the Eight Lineage Patriarchs who received the transmission of the teachings, leading back to the Vairocana Buddha (Vairocana Buddha, Vajrasattva, Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)
- —祖先形質共有symplesiomorphy; ancestral trait shared by two or more taxa
- —祖先の霊を祭るto perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors
- —最も近い共通祖先most recent common ancestor
- —インドヨーロッパ祖語Proto-Indo-European (language)
- —大祖founder; progenitor; emperor
- —曾祖父great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad
- —曽祖母great-grandmother; great-grandma
- —先祖代代ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation; for generations; from generation to generation
- —お祖師様the founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren)
- —御祖師様the founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren)
- —お高祖頭巾okoso-zukin; kerchief covering the whole head (except eyes), worn by women in winter from the Edo period until Meiji
- —日猶同祖論Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory
- —御祖師さまthe founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren)