father's father; paternal grandfather

ancestors; forebears; (biology) ancestral species; ancient species from which present-day species evolved

motherland

surname Zu

ancestor; forefather; grandparents

father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather

Buddha; founder of a buddhist sect

paternal grandparents

ancestor; forebear

primogenitor; founder of a school or trade

father's father's mother; paternal great-grandmother

(literary) my deceased grandfather; (literary) ancestors

passed on from ancestors; handed down from generation to generation

maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)

grandfather's younger brother

Shengzu, temple name of the second Qing emperor, known as the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722); cf. 康熙[Kang1 xi1]

divine ancester; patron saint

Great Ancestor (posthumous title, e.g. for the founder of a dynasty)

Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia

(polite) my paternal grandfather

teacher of one's teacher (esp. in a lineage)

Peng Zu (legendary figure of Taoism who lived 800 years)

ancestors (old)

father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather

Jeonjo (1752-1800), 22nd king of Korean Joseon dynasty

ancestors; forebears

ancestral tomb

ancestral house

former residence; one's original home

ancestral house

founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)

shrine dedicated to one's ancestors

ancestral hometown; original domicile (and civil registration)

ancestry; lineage; pedigree; also written 祖係|祖系

ancestral tomb

ancestral precepts

proto-language; parent language (linguistics)

ancestors; forefathers; ancestry

Zuma (name); Jacob Zuma (1942-), South African ANC politician, vice-president 1999-2005, president 2009-2018

Zulu

dinosaur ancestor of birds

Godhead

to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors

many generations of ancestors

(biology) to exhibit atavism; to revert to ancestral traits

a remote ancestor

Matsu Islands off Fujian, administered by Taiwan

the earliest ancestor; originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)

profligate child of a wealthy family