ruò'áoguǐněi
to have no progeny
- to have no progeny
- (literary) to have no offspring to carry on the family name or offer ancestral sacrifices; a reference to a story from the 左传 zuǒzhuàn about the Ruo'ao family's ghosts going hungry due to a lack of descendants
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- 左传 zuǒzhuàn