始祖
sṳ̄-cū1.(literally) earliest ancestor; primogenitor; progenitor
2.(figuratively) originator; initiator; creator; founder
3.(attributive) primitive; archaeo-
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Imported from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0): en.wiktionary.org/wiki/始祖. Mandarin: shǐzǔ.
Related words
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佛祖 hŭk-cū
- 1. (Buddhism) founder of a Buddhist sect
- 2. (Quanzhou, Buddhism) bodhisattva
- 創始cháung-sṳ̄
創始 cháung-sṳ̄
to initiate; to create; to establish; to set up; to found
- 原始nguòng-sṳ̄
原始 nguòng-sṳ̄
- 1. (attributive, of a source, document, etc.) original; first-hand
- 2. primitive
- 3. (linguistics) proto-
- 4. beginning; outset; start
- 祖厝cū-chió
祖厝 cū-chió
(Puxian) ancestral home
- 祖母cū-mū
祖母 cū-mū
(formal) paternal grandmother
- 起始kī-sṳ̄
起始 kī-sṳ̄
- 1. to originate; to stem from; to initiate
- 2. at first; at the beginning; initially
- 3. origin; initiation
- 開始kăi-sṳ̄
開始 kăi-sṳ̄
- 1. to start; to begin; to commence
- 2. start; beginning; commencement
- 原始閩語nguòng-sṳ̄ mìng-ngṳ̄
原始閩語 nguòng-sṳ̄ mìng-ngṳ̄
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