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祖屋

zǔ wū

2-character word

What 祖屋 means

1. ancestral house

The characters in 祖屋

• 祖zǔancestor; forefather; grandparents
• 屋wū(bound form) house; (bound form) room

Sounds the same

Read zǔ wū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 组屋HDB flats; public apartment flats (in Singapore and Malaysia)

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