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开山鼻祖

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kāi shān bí zǔ

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  1. 1. founder

Child Words of 开山鼻祖

山
shān

mountain; hill (CL:座[zuò])

开
kāi

to open

祖
zǔ

ancestor

开山
kāi shān

to cut into a mountain (to open a mine)

鼻
bí

nose

鼻祖
bí zǔ

the earliest ancestor

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