Word Meaning 祖先

そせん sosen

祖先 is read as そせん (sosen) and means ancestor.

Meaning

English

  1. ancestor

Reading

Kana

そせん

Romaji

sosen

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 15 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 5 Antonyms 子孫 Rank 4928 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

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祖先伝来

そせんでんらい

hereditary

祖先形質共有

そせんけいしつきょうゆう

symplesiomorphy

祖先形質

そせんけいしつ

plesiomorphy

共通祖先

きょうつうそせん

common ancestor

最も近い共通祖先

もっともちかいきょうつうそせん

most recent common ancestor

祖先の霊

そせんのれい

ancestral spirits

祖先の霊を祭る

そせんのれいをまつる

to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

祖先崇拝

そせんすうはい

ancestor worship

先祖

せんぞ

ancestor

先祖代々

せんぞだいだい

for generations

先つ祖

さきつおや

ancestor

先の祖

さきのおや

ancestor

Example Sentences

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We should worship our ancestors.

I can trace my ancestors back 200 years.

The tribe worships its ancestors and speaks its own language, and speaks an unfamiliar language.

There's a rumor in my mother's village that we have Japanese ancestors. I don't know what to make of it.