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    3. 始祖

    始祖

    始し祖そ

    founder

    KMT9News #33+1NounHistoryKanji Vocab17 strokes

    しそ

    Noun

    1.
    founder, originator, pioneer

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    この国くにの始し祖そは、勇ゆう敢かんな戦せん士しだったと言いわれている。

    It is said that the founder of this country was a brave warrior.

    KMT7History
    彼かれは現げん代だい物ぶつ理り学がくの始し祖その一ひと人りととして知しられている。

    He is known as one of the founders of modern physics.

    KMT9Science & MathHistory
    日に本ほん神しん話わにおける天あまて照らす大おおみ神かみは、皇こう室しつの始し祖そとされている。

    Amaterasu Omikami in Japanese mythology is considered the ancestress of the Imperial Family.

    KMT9HistoryReligion & PhilosophyCulture & Traditions
    進しん化か論ろんの始し祖そであるダーウィンは、種しゅの起き源げんについて画かっ期き的てきな理り論ろんを提てい唱しょうした。

    Darwin, the originator of the theory of evolution, proposed a groundbreaking theory on the origin of species.

    KMT9Science & MathHistory
    その思し想そうは、後ごの哲てつ学がくに大おおきな影えい響きょうを与あたえたが、その始し祖そはあまり知しられていない。

    That philosophy greatly influenced later philosophy, but its originator is not widely known.

    KMT10Religion & PhilosophyHistory

    Kanji that make up this word

    始
    はじ.める・-はじ.める・はじ.まる…(2)
    commence・begin
    祖
    ancestor・pioneer・founder
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