"Ancestor" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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祖先 zǔ xiān ancestor / forebears
祖宗 zǔ zōng ancestor / forebear
宗 zōng school / sect / purpose / model / ancestor / clan / to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work) / classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs
祖 zǔ ancestor / forefather / grandparents
太祖 tài zǔ Great Ancestor (posthumous title, e.g. for the founder of a dynasty)
鼻祖 bí zǔ the earliest ancestor / originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
从 cóng from / through / via / to follow / to obey / to engage in (an activity) / never (in negative sentence) / (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer / assistant / auxiliary / subordinate / related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
旁系 páng xì collateral relative (descended from a common ancestor but through different lines)
尊号 zūn hào honorific title / form of address reserved for a queen, ancestor, emperor etc
奉祀 fèng sì to worship / to pay respects to (a deity, ancestor etc) / (of a shrine or temple) to be dedicated to (a deity, ancestor etc)
远祖 yuǎn zǔ a remote ancestor
奉 fèng to offer (tribute) / to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc) / to esteem / to revere / to believe in (a religion) / to wait upon / to accept orders (from superior)
先妣 xiān bǐ deceased mother / mother of an ancestor
岱宗 Dài zōng another name for Mt Tai 泰山 / in Shandong as principal or ancestor of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] / Mt Tai as resting place for departed souls
承重孙 chéng zhòng sūn eldest grandson (to sustain upper storeys of ancestor worship)
直系祖先 zhí xì zǔ xiān direct ancestor
祖鸟 zǔ niǎo dinosaur ancestor of birds
共同祖先  last common ancestor / concestor
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