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Here’s the idiom 「不祧之祖」, with its definition and practical application described below.
祧: The ancestral hall of the ancient emperor’s ancestors. Ancestors who are not moved into the ancestral temple. A metaphor for someone who is respected for founding a certain cause.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù tiāo zhī zǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 tiu1 ji1 jou2
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