"Ancestors" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xiān rén ancestors / previous generations / my late father
 zǔ bèi ancestors / forefathers / ancestry
 lǎo bèi the older generation / ancestors
 shàng bèi ancestors / one's elders
 xiǎn zǔ ancestors (old)
 jì sì to offer sacrifices to the gods or ancestors
 zǔ chuán passed on from ancestors / handed down from generation to generation
 huí lǎo jiā to go back to one's roots / to return to one's native place / by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die)
 shàng bèi zi one's ancestors / past generations / a former incarnation
 jì zǔ to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
 bài jì to worship / to observe religious rites / to pay one's respects (to one's ancestors etc)
耀 guāng zōng yào zǔ to bring honor to one's ancestors
 fén yíng grave / tomb / graveyard / cemetery / fig. one's native place (where one's ancestors are buried)
 xiá triennial sacrifice to ancestors
 fù worship ancestors
 guāng qián yù hòu to bring honor to one's ancestors and benefit future generations (idiom)
 shǔ diǎn wàng zǔ to recount history but omit one's ancestors (idiom) / to forget one's roots
耀 róng zōng yào zǔ to bring honor to one's ancestors (idiom) / also written 光宗耀祖
 xiān dá famous and virtuous ancestors / the great men of the past
 zǔ niǎo lèi dinosaur ancestors of birds
 jī zǔ many generations of ancestors
 pǔ dié genealogical record / record of ancestors / family tree
 xiān jūn my late father / my ancestors / the late emperor
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