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
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
祖父
grandfather
祖父は もう 八十さいです。
My grandfather is already eighty years old.
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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.