chuán zōng jiē dài

Traditional: 傳宗接代

传宗接代 (chuán zōng jiē dài) is a Chinese word meaning “to carry on one's ancestral line”.

Meanings

  1. 1to carry on one's ancestral line

Characters in 传宗接代

传chuán · to pass on宗zōng · school接jiē · to receive代dài · to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute

Related words

接to receive接受to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce直接direct (opposite: indirect 間接|间接[jian4 jie1])代表representative接着to catch and hold on传to pass on传biography接近to approach; to get close to年代a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)接到to receive (letter etc)时代age时代Time, US weekly news magazine

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