"老祖宗" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Chinese]

IPA: /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡su²¹⁴ d͡z̥ʊŋ⁴/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡su²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡su²¹⁴ d͡z̥ʊŋ⁴/, /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡su²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: lǎozǔzong [Mandarin, Pinyin], lǎozǔzōng [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄌㄠˇ ㄗㄨˇ ˙ㄗㄨㄥ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ㄌㄠˇ ㄗㄨˇ ㄗㄨㄥ [Mandarin, bopomofo], lǎozǔzong [Phonetic:láozǔzong] [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], lǎozǔzo̊ng [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], lao³-tsu³-tsung⁵ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], lǎu-dzǔ-dzung [Mandarin, Yale], laotzuu.tzong [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], лаоцзуцзун [Mandarin, Palladius], laoczuczun [Mandarin, Palladius], lǎozǔzōng [Phonetic:láozǔzōng] [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], lǎozǔzong [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], lao³-tsu³-tsung¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], lǎu-dzǔ-dzūng [Mandarin, Yale], laotzuutzong [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 老祖宗
  1. ancestors; forebears; forefathers
    Sense id: en-老祖宗-zh-noun-O945C240 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Collectives, Family, People Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 95 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 96 4 Disambiguation of Collectives: 75 25 Disambiguation of Family: 45 55 Disambiguation of People: 66 34
  2. (honorific, chiefly obsolete) person who is the eldest and highest in the hierarchy of the family Tags: honorific, obsolete
    Sense id: en-老祖宗-zh-noun-nTYmY5Z0 Categories (other): Family Disambiguation of Family: 45 55
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 上輩 (shàngbèi), 上辈 (shàngbèi), 上輩子 (shàngbèizi), 上辈子 (shàngbèizi), 先人 (xiānrén), 先代 (xiāndài) [literary], 先古 (xiāngǔ) [literary], 先君 (xiānjūn) [literary], 先祖 (xiānzǔ) [literary], 先輩 (xiānbèi), 先辈 (xiānbèi), 公婆 [Hokkien], 公媽 [Min-Nan, Puxian-Min], 公妈 [Min-Nan, Puxian-Min], 早勻 [Hokkien, Xiamen], 早匀 [Hokkien, Xiamen], 父祖 (fùzǔ) [literary], 皇考 (huángkǎo) [archaic], 祖上 (zǔshàng), 祖先 (zǔxiān), 祖公 [Hokkien, Puxian-Min], 祖公媽 [Puxian-Min], 祖公妈 [Puxian-Min], 祖宗 (zǔzōng), 老輩 (lǎobèi), 老辈 (lǎobèi)
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      "zh-pron": "lǎozǔzōng"
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      "zh-pron": "lǎu-dzǔ-dzung"
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      "zh-pron": "laotzuu.tzong"
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      "zh-pron": "лаоцзуцзун"
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      "zh-pron": "laoczuczun"
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      "roman": "shàngbèi",
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      "roman": "shàngbèi",
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      "roman": "xiāngǔ",
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      "roman": "xiānjūn",
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      "roman": "xiānzǔ",
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        "Min-Nan",
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Puxian-Min"
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      "word": "公妈"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
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      "word": "早勻"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "早匀"
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      "roman": "fùzǔ",
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      "roman": "huángkǎo",
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      "roman": "zǔshàng",
      "word": "祖上"
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      "roman": "zǔxiān",
      "word": "祖先"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "word": "祖公媽"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "word": "祖宗"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "lǎobèi",
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    {
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
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      "zh-pron": "lao³-tsu³-tsung⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "lǎu-dzǔ-dzung"
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        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
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      "zh-pron": "laotzuu.tzong"
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      "zh-pron": "лаоцзуцзун"
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      "tags": [
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      "zh-pron": "laoczuczun"
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    {
      "ipa": "/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡su²¹⁴ d͡z̥ʊŋ⁴/",
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        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
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      "zh-pron": "lǎozǔzōng [Phonetic:láozǔzōng]"
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      "zh-pron": "lǎozǔzong"
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      "tags": [
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      "zh-pron": "lao³-tsu³-tsung¹"
    },
    {
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        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "lǎu-dzǔ-dzūng"
    },
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      "zh-pron": "laotzuutzong"
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        "Sinological-IPA"
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      "other": "[Phonetic: láozǔzong]"
    },
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    },
    {
      "other": "[Phonetic: láozǔzōng]"
    },
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    {
      "roman": "shàngbèi",
      "word": "上輩"
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      "roman": "shàngbèi",
      "word": "上辈"
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    {
      "roman": "shàngbèizi",
      "word": "上輩子"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shàngbèizi",
      "word": "上辈子"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānrén",
      "word": "先人"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiāndài",
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      ],
      "word": "先代"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiāngǔ",
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      "word": "先古"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānjūn",
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      "word": "先君"
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      "roman": "xiānzǔ",
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    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānbèi",
      "word": "先輩"
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    {
      "roman": "xiānbèi",
      "word": "先辈"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "公婆"
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        "Puxian-Min"
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      "word": "公媽"
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Puxian-Min"
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      "word": "公妈"
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      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "早勻"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "早匀"
    },
    {
      "roman": "fùzǔ",
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        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "父祖"
    },
    {
      "roman": "huángkǎo",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "皇考"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zǔshàng",
      "word": "祖上"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zǔxiān",
      "word": "祖先"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "祖公"
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        "Puxian-Min"
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      "word": "祖公媽"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "祖公妈"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zǔzōng",
      "word": "祖宗"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lǎobèi",
      "word": "老輩"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lǎobèi",
      "word": "老辈"
    }
  ],
  "word": "老祖宗"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.