祖母

Chinese

ancestor; forefather; grandparents female; mother
simp. and trad.
(祖母)
祖 母

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 祖 母
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 模 (23) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 則古切 莫厚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡suoX/ /məuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡suoX/ /məuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡soX/ /məuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sɔX/ /məwX/
Li
Rong
/t͡soX/ /muX/
Wang
Li
/t͡suX/ /məuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡suoX/ /mə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zǔ mǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zou2 mau5

Noun

祖母

  1. (formal) paternal grandmother
    放假了,我們一家大小往鄉下去探望祖母。 [MSC, trad.]
    放假了,我们一家大小往乡下去探望祖母。 [MSC, simp.]
    Fàngjià le, wǒmen yījiādàxiǎo wǎng xiāngxià qù tànwàng zǔmǔ. [Pinyin]
    We had a holiday, so our whole family went to the countryside to visit grandmother.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
祖 母
そ
Grade: 5
ぼ
Grade: 2
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
祖母 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 祖母 (MC t͡suoX məuX). Uses the kan'yōon for the 母 character, indicating a sound change within the Japanese language.

Pronunciation

Noun

祖(そ)母(ぼ) • (sobo) 

  1. grandmother

See also

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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