祖父 zǔfù▶ abuelo

Stroke order

祖父 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 祖 — 9 strokes
• 父 — 4 strokes

Senses

1. father's father
2. paternal grandfather

Related words

• 祖先Ancestros
• 祖国Patria
• 父亲padre

祖父 is pronounced zǔfù and means “abuelo”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 祖父 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.