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祖国

zǔ guó

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 祖國

祖国 (zǔ guó) means "motherland". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 祖国 means

1. motherland

The characters in 祖国

• 祖zǔancestor; forefather; grandparents
• 国guócountry; nation; state; (bound form) national

Example sentences

• 祖国到处是春天
  Zǔguó dàochù shì chūntiān
  It's spring everywhere in the motherland.
• 我爱我的祖国。
  I love my motherland.
• 我深爱我的祖国。
  Wǒ shēn'ài wǒ de zǔguó.
  I love my country with every fiber of my being.
• 他的祖国是德国。
  His home country is Germany.
• 祖国到处是春天。
  It's spring everywhere in the motherland.
• 他们为祖国而战斗。
  Tāmen wèi zǔguó ér zhàndòu.
  They fought for the sake of their country.

Words starting with 祖国

• 祖国和平统一委员会Zǔ guó Hé píng Tǒng yī Wěi yuán huìCommittee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (North Korean)

Words containing 祖国

• 保卫祖国bǎo wèi zǔ guóto defend one's country

Where 祖国 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Decoration, Status & Conditions (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zǔ guó correctly.
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