Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「封妻蔭子」 here, with meaning and examples.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「封妻蔭子」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
In the monarchical era, the wives of meritorious officials were given titles and their descendants inherited official titles. In the old days, it referred to the honor of being an official.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fēng qī yīn zǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fung1 chai1 yam1 ji2
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