# 祖籍 (zǔjí)

In Mandarin Chinese, 祖籍 (zǔjí) means “ancestral home; ancestral birthplace”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: ancestral home; ancestral birthplace
- Pinyin: zǔjí (zu3 ji2)
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9

## Examples

- 我爷爷的祖籍在山东。
  Wǒ yéye de zǔjí zài Shāndōng.
  My grandfather's ancestral home is in Shandong.

## Characters

- 祖 (zǔ): ancestor; forefather
- 籍 (jí): book; record; register; place of one's family or ancestral records

https://hanziro.com/word/zu-ji-ancestral-home/

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