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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「相沿成俗」, with details below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「相沿成俗」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Customs and habits are formed by following certain practices and passing them down.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiàng yán chéng sú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seung2 yun4 sing4 juk6

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