shì jiā
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  • 1

    n.aristocratic family; family holding high offices for generations

    • míng mén shì jiā

      名门世家

      highly respectable family

  • 2

    n.aristocrat's biography; hereditary house of a duke (in Records of the Historian)

  • 3

    n.family in which a special skill has been handed down from generation to generation

    • zhōng yī shì jiā

      中医世家

      family of traditional Chinese medicine