Chinese Vocabulary
祖先
ancestor
祖先
zǔxiān3rd tone
- Pinyin
- zǔxiān
- Strokes
- 15
- In episodes
- 1
Stroke order for 祖先
祖先 is written with 15 strokes (祖: 9, 先: 6). The animation replays automatically.
Usage
HSK 6. 送回它们祖先住过的草原 — the place they had never personally seen.
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祖先 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.
送回哈萨克斯坦，送回它们祖先住过的草原。
Back to Kazakhstan, back to the steppe their ancestors lived on.
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