mén​yìn

ancestral patronage

  • created sense approved 门荫/門蔭 · mén​yìn · ancestral patronage — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    门荫 / 門蔭

    mén​yìn

    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

    created sense