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开山鼻祖

kāi shān bí zǔ

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Definitions

1. founder

Child Words of 开山鼻祖

• 山 山 shān: mountain; hill (CL:座[zuò])
• 开 开 kāi: to open
• 祖 祖 zǔ: ancestor
• 开山 开山 kāi shān: to cut into a mountain (to open a mine)
• 鼻 鼻 bí: nose
• 鼻祖 鼻祖 bí zǔ: the earliest ancestor