







开山鼻祖 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “the pioneer or originator of a school of thought, skill, or enterprise”. A founding father or progenitor. Literally, “founding ancestor”.

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Open the tool →开山鼻祖 (kāi shān bí zǔ) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “the pioneer or originator of a school of thought, skill, or enterprise”.
开山鼻祖 is pronounced kāi shān bí zǔ in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 开山鼻祖 means “founding ancestor”. It is used to mean “the pioneer or originator of a school of thought, skill, or enterprise”.
比喻一个学术流派、技艺的开创者。