祖
祖 in English
- ancestor / forefather / grandparents
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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Lucy是被她的祖父母养大的。
Lucy was brought up by her grandparents.
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不在祖国的时候我很想家，但是在家的时候我又想旅游。
When I'm away from home, I miss it dearly, but when I am at home, I want to travel.
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今天早上我祖母寄出了这封信。
My grandmother posted the letter this morning.
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他以他祖父的名字被命名。
He was named after his grandfather.
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他的祖国是德国。
His home country is Germany.
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她是由她的祖母带大的。
She was brought up by her grandmother.
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她的祖母活到了88岁。
Her grandmother lived to be 88 years old.
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我爱我的祖国。
I love my motherland.