薪火相傳 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 薪火相传 xīnhuǒxiāngchuán ㄒㄧㄣ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄔㄨㄢˊ lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom) fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another Character by character 薪(xīn)firewood 火(huǒ)surname Huo 相(xiāng)surname Xiang 傳(chuán)pass on A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0