祖

祖父 zǔfù HSK 6 #4,499

paternal grandfather / father's father

祖先 zǔxiān HSK 7 #7,073

ancestor / forefather

祖母 zǔmǔ HSK 6 #3,634

paternal grandmother / father's mother

祖国 zǔguó HSK 6 #6,026

motherland; fatherland; homeland

祖父母 zǔfùmǔ #12,457

paternal grandparents / grandfather and grandmother (on the father's side)

曾祖父 zēngzǔfù #12,320

paternal great-grandfather / father's father's father

外祖父 wàizǔfù #21,198

maternal grandfather / mother's father

先祖 xiānzǔ #29,258

ancestors; forefathers / (literary) my late grandfather

祖宗 zǔzōng HSK 7 #21,037

ancestors / forefathers / ancestry

祖传 zǔchuán HSK 7 #24,219

ancestral / handed down from ancestors / passed down through generations