祖
zǔ HSK6

ancestor

祖 zǔ
grandparent noun
(bound form) a grandparent; someone of the generation two levels above oneself
ancestor noun
(bound form) ancestors; forefathers; people of previous generations
founder
(bound form) the founder or originator of a school of thought, religion, or craft
Zu
the surname Zu
to sacrifice to the road god
(archaic) to offer a sacrifice to the spirits of the road before a journey
to follow
(literary) to follow or imitate a predecessor; to take as a model
ancestral temple
(literary) a temple or shrine dedicated to ancestors
to give a send-off
(literary) to give a farewell dinner; to see someone off
to be familiar with
(literary) to be well-acquainted with; to have a thorough knowledge of

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,025th most common 153.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,391st most common 51.5 per million appears in 17% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.89 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
16.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+7956

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)