| 祖 | そ | ancestor; forefather; progenitor |
| 祖 | おや | 1: parent; parents; 2: dealer (in cards); 3: founder; 4: (pet) owner |
| 祖父 | そふ | grandfather |
| 祖母 | そぼ | grandmother |
| 祖母 | うば | grandmother |
| 祖父 | おじ | grandfather |
| 祖母 | おば | grandmother |
| 祖父 | じい | grandfather |
| 祖父 | じじ | grandfather |
| 祖語 | そご | parent language |
| 祖師 | そし | founder of a sect |
| 祖父 | そぶ | grandfather |
| 祖母 | ばば | grandmother |
| 祖国 | そこく | motherland; fatherland; native country |
| 祖先 | そせん | ancestor |
| 祖父 | おおじ | 1: grandfather; 2: old man; 3: kyogen mask used for the role of an old man |
| 祖母 | おおば | grandmother |
| 祖型 | そけい | prototype |
| 祖宗 | そそう | ancestors |
| 祖霊 | それい | 1: ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; 2: ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami |
| 祖父母 | そふぼ | grandparents |
| 祖述 | そじゅつ | exposition (propagation) of one's master's teachings or doctrines |
| 祖廟 | そびょう | mausoleum containing the remains of one's ancestors |
| 祖師禅 | そしぜん | Zen Buddhism based on the teachings of Bodhidharma |
| 祖父さん | じいさん | 1: grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); 2: male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific) |
| 祖母さん | ばあさん | 1: grandmother; 2: female senior citizen |
| 祖国愛 | そこくあい | patriotism |
| 祖父ちゃん | じいちゃん | 1: grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); 2: male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific) |
| 祖国復帰 | そこくふっき | returning to one's fatherland |
| 祖師西来 | そしせいらい | the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China |
| 祖先の霊 | そせんのれい | ancestral spirits |
| 祖国戦争 | そこくせんそう | Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812) |
| 祖先崇拝 | そせんすうはい | ancestor worship |
| 祖先伝来 | そせんでんらい | hereditary |
| 祖先の霊を祭る | そせんのれいをまつる | to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors |
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