祖公
Chinese
| ancestor; forefather; grandparents | just; honourable; public just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (祖公) | 祖 | 公 | |
| simp. #(祖公) | 祖 | 公 | |
| anagram | 公祖 | ||
Pronunciation
- Hakka
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zou3 gorng1
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chó͘-kong
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chú-kûng
- Hakka Romanization System: zuˋ gungˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: zu3 gung1
- Sinological IPA: /t͡su³¹ kuŋ²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: zuˊ gungˋ
- Sinological IPA: /t͡su²⁴⁻³³ kuŋ⁵³/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: zou3 gorng1 [Phonetic: zou5 orng1]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cô-go̤ng
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɔu⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ (k-)ɒŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: zou3 gorng1 [Phonetic: zou5 orng1]
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɔu³³²⁻²¹ (k-)ɒŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó͘-kong
- Tâi-lô: tsóo-kong
- Phofsit Daibuun: zofkofng
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kɔŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
Noun
祖公
- (Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, Puxian Min) ancestors; forebears; forefathers
- (Hokkien) great-grandfather (particularly paternal grandfather's father)
- (Hokkien, vulgar) another's ancestor (usually referring to the speaker to insult someone)
Synonyms
- (ancestors):
- 上輩 / 上辈 (shàngbèi)
- 上輩子 / 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 / 先辈 (xiānbèi)
- 公婆 (Hokkien)
- 公媽 / 公妈 (Puxian Min, Min Nan)
- 早勻 / 早匀 (Xiamen Hokkien)
- 父祖 (fùzǔ) (literary)
- 皇考 (huángkǎo) (archaic)
- 祖上 (zǔshàng)
- 祖先 (zǔxiān)
- 祖公媽 / 祖公妈 (Puxian Min)
- 祖宗 (zǔzōng)
- 老祖宗
- 老輩 / 老辈 (lǎobèi)
Dialectal synonyms of 曾祖父 (“great-grandfather (paternal grandfather's father)”) [map]
Derived terms
References
- “祖公”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
- “Entry #3014”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
- 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “祖公”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 601.