祖家

Chinese

		ancestor; forefather; grandparents	home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
simp. and trad. (祖家)		祖	家

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zǔjiā

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zou² gaa¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chú-kâ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zou³ ga¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chó͘-ke

(Teochew, Peng'im): zou² gê¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zǔjiā
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zǔjia
  - Wade–Giles: tsu³-chia¹
  - Yale: dzǔ-jyā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuujia
  - Palladius: цзуцзя (czuczja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zou² gaa¹
  - Yale: jóu gā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzou² gaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zou² ga¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯³⁵ kaː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chú-kâ
  - Hakka Romanization System: zu^ˋ ga^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zu³ ga¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡su³¹ ka²⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zou³ ga¹ [Phonetic: zou⁵ a¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cô-ga
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔu⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(k-)a⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zou³ ga¹ [Phonetic: zou⁵ a¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔu³³²⁻²¹ ^(k-)a⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó͘-ke
  - Tâi-lô: tsóo-ke
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zofkef
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ke³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zou² gê¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsóu ke
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou⁵²⁻³⁵ ke³³/

Noun

祖家

(literary) family descended from the same ancestor
(chiefly Cantonese) homeland; land of one's ancestors
(colonial Hong Kong, colonial Singapore, Christianity in Taiwan, historical) Britain or England
- 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.]
  在祖家有多多女人，贤过男人。 [Teochew, simp.]
  do⁶ zou² gê¹ u⁶ gê¹ gê¹ ze¹ niê⁵, ghao⁵ guê³ da¹ bou¹. [Peng'im]
  There are many ladies in England cleverer than men.
- 1912, James Dyer Ball, How to Speak Cantonese‎^[1]:
  
  事頭舊年翻去歸祖家 [Cantonese, trad.]
  事头旧年翻去归祖家 [Cantonese, simp.]
  si⁶ tau^4-2 gau⁶ nin^4-2 faan¹ heoi³ gwai¹ zou² gaa¹ [Jyutping]
  He went home to England last year
- 1933, 連橫 (Lián Héng), 雅言 [yǎyán]‎^[2]:
  
  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.]
  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.]
  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]
  The worst is that [Taiwanese Christians] call England "the motherland", and refer to English goods as "goods of the motherland", forgetting their identity as countrymen!
(Mainland China Hokkien) hometown; native place
(Mainland China Hokkien, Puxian Min) ancestral home; original family home

Synonyms

(hometown): 故里 (gùlǐ), 家鄉／家乡 (jiāxiāng)
(ancestral home): 祖籍 (zǔjí), 原籍 (yuánjí)