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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「真命天子」 here, with meaning and examples.

The idiom being introduced now is 「真命天子」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

In ancient times, it was said that the emperor was born with the mandate of heaven.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhēn mìng tiān zǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jan1 ming6 tin1 ji2

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