不祧之祖
bùtiāo-zhīzǔ
a revered founder
Every meaning
bùtiāo-zhīzǔ
- a revered founder
- (idiom) an ancestor never moved from the temple
Its characters
- 不bùnot; no
- 祧tiāo(archaic) ancestral shrine
- 之zhī(particle) of; 's (literary 的)
- 祖zǔgrandfather; ancestor (as in 祖父, 祖先)
Words with 不
Words with 之
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chengyu from the Xinhua idiom list, the most common first.