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祖家

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: zou2 gê1
POJ: tsó͘-ke
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: hometown; ancestral home; native place
祖家

The page lists several dialect/register-specific senses sharing this reading (literary 'family of shared ancestry', Cantonese 'homeland', historical colonial-era 'Britain/England', Hokkien 'hometown/ancestral home'); picked the Hokkien 'hometown/ancestral home' sense as most plausible for Teochew but it is not fully certain which sense applies.

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