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Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「一脈相傳」, detailed below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「一脈相傳」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

One bloodline: one bloodline. It has been passed down from generation to generation from the same bloodline and faction. Criticize the inheritance relationship between certain ideas, behaviors or doctrines.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī mài xiàng chuán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 mak6 seung1 chyun4

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