Chinese word

祖籍

Pronunciation

Pinyinzǔ jí

Meaning

  • nounancestral home

Example

你的祖籍是哪里？nǐ de zǔ jí shì ná lǐ

Where is your ancestral home?

Illustration for 祖籍 (ancestral home)

More examples

为了办理户口迁移，他需要提供父母的祖籍信息。wèi le bàn lǐ hù kǒu qiān yí tā xū yào tí gōng fù mǔ de zǔ jí xìn xī

To transfer his household registration, he needs to provide information about his parents' ancestral home.

Core concept

The place attached to a family through its ancestors and records, rather than necessarily the place a person lives.

Common phrases

  • 追溯祖籍zhuī sù zǔ jí

    trace ancestral origins

  • 确认祖籍què rèn zǔ jí

    confirm ancestral home

  • 登记祖籍信息dēng jì zǔ jí xìn xī

    register ancestral home information

Similar words

籍贯jí guàn: A formal written term for the registered ancestral origin of a family.
出生地chū shēng dì: The location of a person's birth.
家乡jiā xiāng: The home region where a person grew up or a family has long lived.
户籍hù jí: A household registration showing a person's officially registered residence.

Definition in Chinese

指先祖出生或在户籍、族谱等记录上登记的地方，用来表示家族的原籍地，未必等同于个人的现居地。zhǐ xiān zǔ chū shēng huò zài hù jí zú pǔ děng jì lù shàng dēng jì de dì fāng yòng lái biǎo shì jiā zú de yuán jí dì wèi bì děng tóng yú gè rén de xiàn jū dì

Word origin

祖 (zǔ, "ancestor") + 籍 (jí, "register") forms a term for the place where a family's ancestral origin is recorded.

Usage tips

  • In casual conversation, 你是哪里人 (nǐ shì nǎlǐ rén, "Where are you from?") is usually preferred for personal background, while this term points specifically to family roots and sounds more formal.

Other meanings

  • hometownnoun

Opposites

  • 现住地xiàn zhù dìcurrent place of residencenoun
  • 现籍xiàn jícurrent household registrationnoun

Related words

  • 祖籍地zǔ jí dìancestral homelandnoun
  • 祖籍所在地zǔ jí suǒ zài dìancestral home locationnoun
  • 祖籍证明zǔ jí zhèng míngancestral home certificatenoun

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