薪火相传

Traditional form:

薪火相傳

Pinyin (reading):

xīnhuǒxiāngchuán

Definitions:

• 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

Characters:

• 薪 - fuel, firewood; salary
• 火 - fire, flame; to burn; anger, rage
• 相 - mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
• 传 - to pass on; to propagate; to transmit; summons

Traditional characters:

• 薪 - fuel, firewood; salary
• 火 - fire, flame; to burn; anger, rage
• 相 - mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
• 傳 - to pass on; to propagate; to transmit; summons