祖师
zǔ shī
Pinyin

Definition

祖师
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zǔ shī
  1. founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)

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

禅这个字很难解释,它是一种智慧,而且有着非常深非常广的意义。我来说一个小故事吧,看你能不能明白。达摩是中国禅宗祖师,有一天他问自己的弟子:一滴水怎样才能不干涸?弟子们想来想去啊,都回答不出。
chán zhè ge zì hěn nán jiěshì ,tā shì yīzhǒng zhìhuì ,érqiě yǒuzhe fēicháng shēn fēicháng guǎng de yìyì 。wǒ lái shuō yī gè xiǎo gùshi ba ,kàn nǐ néngbùnéng míngbai 。Dámó shì Zhōngguó chánzōng zǔshī ,yǒu yī tiān tā wèn zìjǐ de dìzǐ :yī dī shuǐ zěnyàng cái néng bù gānhé ?dìzǐ men xiǎngláixiǎngqù a ,dōu huídá bù chū 。
This word is very difficult to explain. It's a kind of way of approaching things. It's both very deep and very broad. I'll tell you a story and see if you understand. Once there was a Chan master named Bodhidharma. One day he asked his pupils, 'How could a single drop of water never dry up'? His pupils thought about it long and hard, but none of them could come up with an answer.
那里可是武当派的老家,祖师爷是我最崇拜的张三丰。
nàlǐ kěshì Wǔdāngpài de lǎojiā ,zǔshīyé shì wǒ zuì chóngbài de Zhāng Sānfēng 。
It's the home of the Wudang kung-fu clan. That grand master is the one I worship the most, Zhang Sanfeng.
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