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殷鉴
yīn​jiàn

warnings from history

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殷鉴 殷鑒 yīn​jiàn
variant 殷鑑
warnings from history
(literary) examples of past failures that serve as a lesson for the future; a historical warning. Derived from the "Book of Odes" line "The warning for the Yin dynasty was not far off, it was in the time of the Xia kings."

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0.040 per million

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