祖家
Chinese
ancestor; forefather; grandparents | home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools | ||
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simp. and trad. (祖家) | 祖 | 家 |
Pronunciation
Noun
祖家
- (literary) family descended from the same ancestor
- (chiefly Cantonese) homeland; land of one's ancestors
- (colonial Hong Kong, colonial Singapore, Taiwan, historical) Britain or England
- 1912, James Dyer Ball, How to Speak Cantonese
- 事頭舊年翻去歸祖家 [Cantonese, trad.]
- si6 tau4 gau6 nin4-2 faan1 heoi3 gwai1 zou2 gaa1 [Jyutping]
- He went home to England last year
事头旧年翻去归祖家 [Cantonese, simp.]
- 1886, Lim, Hiong Seng, Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press:
- 在祖家有多多女人,賢過男人。 [Teochew, trad.]
- do6 zou2 gê1 u6 gê1 gê1 ze1 niê5, ghao5 guê3 da1 bou1. [Peng'im]
- There are many ladies in England cleverer than men.
在祖家有多多女人,贤过男人。 [Teochew, simp.]
- 連橫, 《雅言》
- 其最壞者,則稱英國為「祖家」、謂英國之貨為「祖家貨」,竟自忘其為何國人,哀哉! [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- Qí zuì huài zhě, zé chēng yīngguó wèi “zǔjiā”, wèi yīngguó zhī huò wèi “zǔjiāhuò”, jìng zì wàng qí wèi hé guó rén, āizāi! [Pinyin]
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其最坏者,则称英国为“祖家”、谓英国之货为“祖家货”,竟自忘其为何国人,哀哉! [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- 1912, James Dyer Ball, How to Speak Cantonese
- (Mainland China Hokkien) hometown; native place
- (Mainland China Hokkien) ancestral home; original family home
Synonyms
- (hometown): 故里 (gùlǐ), 家鄉/家乡 (jiāxiāng)
- (ancestral home): 祖籍 (zǔjí), 原籍 (yuánjí)