common
noun

Meaning of 祖业

祖业 means ancestral property; family estate; inheritance from ancestors; meritorious achievements or enterprises founded by ancestors; ancestral legacy. Pronounced zǔ yè.

  • ancestral property; family estate; inheritance from ancestors
  • meritorious achievements or enterprises founded by ancestors; ancestral legacy

Definitions & Examples

Zhè
zuò
lǎo
zhái
shì
 
néng
qīng
mài
diào
 

This old mansion is family property and cannot be sold lightly.

chéng
le
 
chéng
wéi
jiā
de
sān
dài
chuán
rén
 

He inherited the family business and became the third-generation successor.

dài
dài
xiāng
chuán
 
shǒu
chéng
chuàng
gèng
nán
 

Family estates are passed down through generations; maintaining them is harder than founding them.