祖籍 (zǔ jí) — ancestral hometown (the place where one's ancestors originated, often tracked genealogically)
Definition
A formal noun for one's ancestral hometown — the family's place of origin recorded on forms, more official than 老家. Compare 籍贯, which is the near-synonym usually filled in on ID documents.
noun
ancestral hometown (the place where one's ancestors originated, often tracked genealogically)
Examples
- 祖籍，。Wǒ de zǔ jí shì guǎng dōng, dàn wǒ zài běi jīng chū shēng zhǎng dà.My ancestral hometown is Guangdong, but I was born and grew up in Beijing.
- ，祖籍。Tián biǎo gé shí, tā xiě de shì fù qīn nà biān de zǔ jí.When filling out the form, he wrote down his paternal ancestral hometown.
- 祖籍，。Suī rán jiā zú zǎo jiù bú zài zǔ jí zhù le, dàn měi nián qīng míng hái huì huí qù sǎo mù.Even though the family no longer lives in the ancestral hometown, they still go back every Qingming Festival to sweep the graves.
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