Read Edit View history 祖先 zǔxiān HSK7 ancestor Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 祖先 zǔxiān ancestor noun ancestors or forebears of a family or ethnic group; typically refers to generations in the distant past 我们的祖先吃什么？ wǒmen de zǔxiān chī shénme? What did our ancestors eat? evolutionary ancestor noun the ancient organisms or species from which modern biological groups evolved 地球上的所有生命都有着共同的祖先。 dìqiú shang de suǒyǒu shēngmìng dōu yǒuzhe gòngtóng de zǔxiān. All life on Earth shares a common ancestor. Frequency Movie subtitles 6.59 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 4.91 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Cross-References Classifier 位 wèiSame as 祖上 zǔshàng先古 xiāngǔSynonym 先人 xiānrén先祖 xiānzǔ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
祖先 zǔxiān ancestor noun ancestors or forebears of a family or ethnic group; typically refers to generations in the distant past 我们的祖先吃什么？ wǒmen de zǔxiān chī shénme? What did our ancestors eat? evolutionary ancestor noun the ancient organisms or species from which modern biological groups evolved 地球上的所有生命都有着共同的祖先。 dìqiú shang de suǒyǒu shēngmìng dōu yǒuzhe gòngtóng de zǔxiān. All life on Earth shares a common ancestor. Frequency Movie subtitles 6.59 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 4.91 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 6 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Cross-References Classifier 位 wèiSame as 祖上 zǔshàng先古 xiāngǔSynonym 先人 xiānrén先祖 xiānzǔ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)