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祖父
そふ
Common word
N4
Nouns
grandfather · old man · kyogen mask for an old man role
祖母
そぼ
Common word
N4
Nouns
grandmother
先祖
せんぞ
Common word
N3
Nouns
ancestor; forefather; foremother
元祖
がんそ
Common word
Nouns
originator; pioneer; founder · progenitor; founder of a family line
祖国
そこく
Common word
Nouns
homeland; motherland; fatherland; native country
祖先
そせん
Common word
N3
Nouns
ancestor; forebear
おじいさん
Common word
N5
Nouns
grandfather · elderly man; old man
祖父母
そふぼ
Common word
N2
Nouns
grandparents
おばあさん
Common word
N5
Nouns
grandmother · old woman; elderly lady
祖
そ
Common word
Nouns
ancestor; forefather; progenitor · founder; originator; pioneer; inventor · grandfather
教祖
きょうそ
Common word
Nouns
founder of a religious sect
媽祖
まそ
Nouns
Mazu; Chinese sea goddess
始祖
しそ
Nouns
founder; originator; pioneer
開祖
かいそ
Nouns
founder of a sect; originator; apostle
父祖
ふそ
Nouns
ancestors; forefathers
じじばば
Nouns
old people; the elderly · grandparents
曾祖母
そうそぼ
Nouns
great-grandmother
曽祖父
そうそふ
Nouns
great-grandfather
祖師
そし
Nouns
founder of a sect; patriarch
祖神
そしん
Nouns
ancestral deity; deified ancestor
先祖返り
せんぞがえり
Nouns
atavism; reversion to ancestral traits
高祖父
こうそふ
Nouns
great-great-grandfather
高祖
こうそ
Nouns
founder of a dynasty; founder of a sect
宗祖
しゅうそ
Common word
Nouns
sect founder; founder of a religious denomination
道祖神
どうそじん
Nouns
traveler's guardian deity
皇祖
こうそ
Nouns
founder of an empire; imperial ancestor
皇祖
おおじのみこと
Nouns
grandfather of the emperor
中興の祖
ちゅうこうのそ
Expressions
restorer of a dynasty; ancestor who rejuvenated a family
亡祖父
ぼうそふ
Nouns
deceased grandfather; late grandfather
人祖
じんそ
Nouns
progenitor; ancestor of humanity
仏祖
ぶっそ
Nouns
Founder of Buddhism
付法の八祖
ふほうのはっそ
Expressions
the Eight Lineage Patriarchs of Shingon Buddhism
伝持の八祖
でんじのはっそ
Expressions
the eight doctrinal patriarchs (Shingon Buddhism)
先つ祖
さきつおや
Nouns
ancestor
先の祖
さきのおや
Nouns
ancestor
先祖代々
せんぞだいだい
Other
ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation · for generations; from generation to generation
先祖伝承
せんぞでんしょう
Nouns
oral tradition; handed-down lore; legend
先祖伝来
せんぞでんらい
Other
inherited; ancestral; family heirloom
先祖の位牌
せんぞのいはい
Nouns
ancestral tablet; memorial tablet for ancestors
先祖構造体
せんぞこうぞうたい
Nouns
ancestor structure
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