祖
zǔZǔ HSK6

ancestor

祖 zǔ frequency
ancestor noun
a person from whom one is descended; a forefather

祭拜祖先是华人的传统。

jì​bài zǔ xiān shì Huá​rén de chuán​tǒng.

Worshipping ancestors is a Chinese tradition.

grandparent noun
the father's parents; grandfather or grandmother

他自小由祖父母抚养长大。

tā zì​xiǎo yóu zǔ fù​mǔ fǔ​yǎng zhǎng​dà.

He was raised by his grandparents since childhood.

祖 Zǔ
surname proper name
surname Zu

祖冲之是中国古代著名的数学家。

Zǔ​chōng​zhī shì Zhōng​guó gǔ​dài zhù​míng de shù​xué​jiā.

Zu Chongzhi was a famous mathematician in ancient China.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)