created sense approved 门荫/門蔭 · ményìn · ancestral patronage — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
门荫 / 門蔭
ményìn
ancestral patronage
(literary) official position or prestige inherited or granted based on the status and merits of one's ancestors
门 (literal) → 门/門 · mén · family 荫 (bound) → 荫/蔭 · yìn · [privilege]
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition