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鼻祖

bí zǔ

2-character word

What 鼻祖 means

1. the earliest ancestor
2. originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)

The characters in 鼻祖

• 鼻bínose
• 祖zǔancestor; forefather; grandparents

Words containing 鼻祖

• 开山鼻祖kāi shān bí zǔfounder

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