The Chinese word for grandfather is
祖父
zǔ fù
Chinese Definition
| grandfather | |
| 1. 名词. 爷爷、祖父、姥爷、外祖父 | |
| Components | |
| 祖 | |
| 1. ancestor; forebear; forefather | |
| 2. grandparent; grandfather or grandmother | |
| 3. founder | |
| 4. (literary) to follow the example of; to pattern after | |
| 5. . Zu | |
| ^祖 ^沖-之 - Zu Chongzhi (Chinese astronomer and mathematician during the Liu Song and Southern Qi dynasties) | |
| 父 | |
| 1. father | |
| 父親 (fùqīn) - (formal) father | |
| 父母 (fùmǔ) - parents; father and mother | |
| 父子 (fùzǐ) - father and son | |
| 父女 (fùnǚ) - father and daughter | |
| 父輩 (fùbèi) - one's father's generation | |
| 家父 (jiāfù) - (humble) my father | |
| 生父 (shēngfù) - biological father | |
| 養父 (yǎngfù) - adoptive father | |
| 繼父 (jìfù) - stepfather | |
| 天父 (tiānfù) - (Christianity) Heavenly Father | |
| 國父 (guófù) - father of a nation; (specifically) Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen) | |
| 雜交 水稻 之 父 (zájiāo shuǐdào zhī fù) - (specifically) Father of Hybrid Rice (Yuan Longping) | |
| Antonyms: 母 | |
| 2. (Used to address a male elder member of a family.) | |
| 祖父 (zǔfù) - paternal grandfather (one's father's father) | |
| 伯父 (bófù) - paternal uncle (father's elder brother) | |
| 叔父 (shūfù) - paternal uncle (father's younger brother) | |
| 岳父 (yuèfù) - father-in-law (wife's father) | |
| 舅父 (jiùfù) - maternal uncle (mother's brother) | |
| 姨父 (yífù) - maternal uncle (husband of mother's sister) | |
| 姑父 (gūfù) - paternal uncle (husband of father's sister) | |
| Antonyms: 母 | |
| 3. (literary, respectful) old man; elderly man | |
| 漁父fǔ (yúfǔ) - old fisherman | |
| 田父fǔ (tiánfǔ) - old farmer | |
| 4. (literary) Alternative form of 甫 ((honorific suffix used after a man's name;) courtesy name) | |
| ^梁父fǔ山（^梁甫山） (Liángfǔshān (Liángfǔshān)) - Mount Liangfu (alternately, Mount Liangfu) (in Shandong, China) |
Translations for 父 and their definitions
| 爺爺 | |
| 1. n. (colloquial) paternal grandfather | |
| 2. n. (colloquial) (Term of address for an elderly man.) | |
| 3. n. (dialectal Mandarin) maternal grandfather | |
| 4. n. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Jin) sun | |
| 5. n. (dialectal) father |
| 爷爷 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 爺爺 |
| 祖父 | |
| 1. n. (formal) paternal grandfather (one's father's father) | |
| 我 祖父 既 不 會 讀 又 不 會 寫。 - My grandfather can neither read nor write. |
| 外祖父 | |
| 1. n. (formal) one's (maternal) grandfather; one's mother's father |
| 外公 | |
| 1. n. (regional, colloquial) maternal grandfather |
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zǔ fù
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