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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「重明繼焰」, explained here.

This feature highlights the idiom 「重明繼焰」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It means that the light continues one after another and never stops.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhòng míng jì yàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jung6 ming4 gai3 yim6

Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.