先祖 — Semantide dictionary

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(literary) my deceased grandfather; (literary) ancestors

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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先

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beforehand; first; earlier, at first; originally, for the time being; for now, (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)

Pinyin: xiān

Strokes: 6
Frequency: 295 of 2500

Words starting with 先 Words ending in 先 Anywhere in a word

祖

Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname Zu

Pinyin: Zǔ

Strokes: 9
Frequency: 17016 of 2500

Words starting with 祖 Words ending in 祖 Anywhere in a word