妈祖
Mā zǔ
Pinyin

Definition

妈祖
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Mā zǔ
  1. Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

佛祖
Fó zǔ
  1. 1 Buddha
  2. 2 founder of a buddhist sect
祖国
zǔ guó
  1. 1 motherland
祖宗
zǔ zōng
  1. 1 ancestor
  2. 2 forebear
始祖
shǐ zǔ
  1. 1 primogenitor
  2. 2 founder of a school or trade
妈祖
Mā zǔ
  1. 1 Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia
宋祖英
Sòng Zǔ yīng
  1. 1 Song Zuying (1966-), Chinese folk music singer
容祖儿
Róng Zǔ ér
  1. 1 Joey Yung (1980-), Hong Kong pop singer and actress
王祖贤
Wáng Zǔ xián
  1. 1 Joey Wong (1967-), Taiwanese actress
祖
Zǔ
  1. 1 surname Zu
祖传
zǔ chuán
  1. 1 passed on from ancestors
  2. 2 handed down from generation to generation
祖先
zǔ xiān
  1. 1 ancestor
  2. 2 forebears
祖坟
zǔ fén
  1. 1 ancestral tomb
祖师
zǔ shī
  1. 1 founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
祖母
zǔ mǔ
  1. 1 father's mother
  2. 2 paternal grandmother
祖父
zǔ fù
  1. 1 father's father
  2. 2 paternal grandfather
祖籍
zǔ jí
  1. 1 ancestral hometown
  2. 2 original domicile (and civil registration)
祭祖
jì zǔ
  1. 1 to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
鼻祖
bí zǔ
  1. 1 the earliest ancestor
  2. 2 originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
元世祖
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
先祖
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

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