开山祖师

founding master of a monastery / founder / originator

to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

surname Shi

teacher / master / expert / model / army division / (old) troops / to dispatch troops

surname Zu

ancestor / forefather / grandparents

to cut into a mountain (to open a mine) / to open a monastery

founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)