Radical: 礻 pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

祖 decomposes into the following components:

Semantic component: ; phonetic component: .

Words containing 祖

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 祖.

佛祖
fó zǔ
先祖
xiān zǔ
叔祖
shū zǔ
圣祖
shèng zǔ
太祖
tài zǔ
妈祖
mā zǔ
始祖
shǐ zǔ
家祖
jiā zǔ
彭祖
péng zǔ
显祖
xiǎn zǔ
曾祖
zēng zǔ
正祖
zhèng zǔ

Related characters (radical 礻)

Characters that share the radical .

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