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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「繩其祖武」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Sheng: continue; Wu: footprint. Continue to move forward in the footsteps of our ancestors. A metaphor for inheriting ancestral property.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shéng qí zǔ wǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sing2 kei4 jou2 mou5
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