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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「興亡繼絕」. Explanation below.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「興亡繼絕」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

To revive the extinct and make it continue. Same as “revive the destroyed and continue the extinct”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xìng wáng jì jué

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hing1 mong4 gai3 jyut6

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.