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The kanji 祖: meaning, readings and stroke order

祖

Meaning
grandparent, ancestor
On reading
ソ so
Kun reading
—
Strokes
9
Radical
示 sign
Level
Level 5 · grade 5
Old form
祖

Stroke order

Stroke order of 祖, 9 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese
ông bà, tổ tiên (tổ)
Japanese
おじいさんや おばあさん。せんぞ。
Korean
할아버지 할머니, 조상 (조)
Chinese
祖父母、祖先

Readings, words and example sentences

ソ so · on reading

Practise writing 祖 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 祖 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 5 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.