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The Chinese idiom 「不祧之宗」 we’re introducing today is explained in detail below, along with its meaning and usage.
Ancestors who are not moved into the ancestral temple. A metaphor for someone who is respected for founding a certain cause.祧: The ancestral hall of the ancient emperor’s ancestors.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù tiāo zhī zōng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 tiu1 ji1 jung1
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