zhāo​mù

zhao-mu system

昭穆 zhāo​mù
zhao-mu system
(literary) system of arrangement for ancestral tablets in a temple or for graves in a cemetery where the founding ancestor is in the center and subsequent generations alternate to the left and right
seniority in a clan
(literary) the order of seniority or the hierarchy of generations within a clan or family line

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