(idiom) one's ancestors through the generations
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
grandfather's younger brother
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
vuvuzela (horn) (loanword)
vuvuzela (horn blown by sports fans)
Great Ancestor (posthumous title, e.g. for the founder of a dynasty)
archaeopteryx
flamingo lily (Anthurium andraeanum)
(polite) my paternal grandfather
brat / little devil
bazooka (loanword)
teacher of one's teacher (esp. in a lineage)
to recount history but omit one's ancestors (idiom) / to forget one's roots
great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)
great-grandfather (mother's grandfather)
father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
great-grandparents
see 光宗耀祖[]
direct ancestor
Godhead
to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
many generations of ancestors
divine ancester / patron saint
(biology) to exhibit atavism / to revert to ancestral traits
(biology) atavism
a remote ancestor
founding master of a monastery / founder / originator
founder
ancestors (old)
great-great-grandmother
great-great-grandfather
the earliest ancestor / originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
Buddha / founder of a buddhist sect
(literary) my deceased grandfather / (literary) ancestors
Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (North Korean)
Zu Chongzhi (429-500), astronomer and mathematician
Zuma (name) / Jacob Zuma (1942-), South African ANC politician, vice-president 1999-2005, president 2009-2018
Zulu
Zulu people
lit. progenitor of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), title of Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27