祖師

祖师
zǔshī
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)

CEDICT

founder (of a school of learning, or sect of Buddhism or Taoism); patriarch

Wiktionary

一派學術、技藝、宗教或行業的創始人。

重編國語辭典

  1. 宗派、寺廟的開創者或傳承者
  2. 思想、學問、技巧、職業等的開創者
  3. 特指清水祖師
  4. 特指菩提達摩

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 祖 zǔ
  1. ancestor
  2. forefather
  3. grandparents
2 師 shī
  1. teacher
  2. master
  3. expert
  4. model
  5. army division
  6. (old) troops
  7. to dispatch troops

Containing this entry

祖師爺 zǔshīyé founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
開山祖師 kāishānzǔshī
  1. founding master of a monastery
  2. founder
  3. originator
祖師殿 zǔshīdiàn

Related entries

創立人 chuànglìrén founder
創立者 chuànglìzhě founder
創辦人 chuàngbànrén founder (of an institution etc)
她不是創辦人，她是投資人。

She is not the founder, she's the investor.

Source: Tatoeba

奠基人 diànjīrén
  1. founder
  2. pioneer
奠基者 diànjīzhě
  1. founder
  2. pioneer
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