祖传
zǔ chuán
Pinyin

Definition

祖传
 - 
zǔ chuán
  1. passed on from ancestors
  2. handed down from generation to generation

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Fó zǔ
  1. 1 Buddha
  2. 2 founder of a buddhist sect
zǔ guó
  1. 1 motherland
zǔ zōng
  1. 1 ancestor
  2. 2 forebear
shǐ zǔ
  1. 1 primogenitor
  2. 2 founder of a school or trade
Mā zǔ
  1. 1 Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia
Sòng Zǔ yīng
  1. 1 Song Zuying (1966-), Chinese folk music singer
Róng Zǔ ér
  1. 1 Joey Yung (1980-), Hong Kong pop singer and actress
Wáng Zǔ xián
  1. 1 Joey Wong (1967-), Taiwanese actress
  1. 1 surname Zu
zǔ chuán
  1. 1 passed on from ancestors
  2. 2 handed down from generation to generation
zǔ xiān
  1. 1 ancestor
  2. 2 forebears
zǔ fén
  1. 1 ancestral tomb
zǔ shī
  1. 1 founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
zǔ mǔ
  1. 1 father's mother
  2. 2 paternal grandmother
zǔ fù
  1. 1 father's father
  2. 2 paternal grandfather
zǔ jí
  1. 1 ancestral hometown
  2. 2 original domicile (and civil registration)
jì zǔ
  1. 1 to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
bí zǔ
  1. 1 the earliest ancestor
  2. 2 originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
Yuán Shì zǔ
  1. 1 lit. progenitor of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), title of Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294
xiān zǔ
  1. 1 deceased grandfather
  2. 2 ancestry

Idioms (2)

数典忘祖
shǔ diǎn wàng zǔ
  1. 1 to recount history but omit one's ancestors (idiom); to forget one's roots
荣宗耀祖
róng zōng yào zǔ
  1. 1 to bring honor to one's ancestors (idiom)
  2. 2 also written 光宗耀祖

Sample Sentences

这是我上次去旅游,一个乡下人卖给我的,说是他们家祖传的。因为心疼画,硬是要裱好了卖给我,还多收我五百多块呢。
zhè shì wǒ shàngcì qù lǚyóu ,yī ge xiāngxiàrén màigěi wǒ de ,shuō shì tāmen jiā zǔchuán de 。yīnwèi xīnténg huà ,yìngshì yào biǎo hǎo le màigěi wǒ ,hái duō shōu wǒ wǔbǎi duō kuài ne 。
This is from the last time I went traveling. A man from the countryside sold it to me. He said it had been handed down from his ancestors. Because the painting was so dear to him, he insisted on having it mounted as a scroll before he'd sell it to me. He even got another 500 kuai out of me.
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