不知丁董
bù​zhī​dīng​dǒng

unheeding the lessons of the past

  • created reference approved 不知丁董 → 前车之鉴/前車之鑒 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不知丁董 bù​zhī​dīng​dǒng

    前车之鉴 / 前車之鑒 qián​chē​zhī​jiàn

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 不知丁董 · bù​zhī​dīng​dǒng · unheeding the lessons of the past — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不知丁董

    bù​zhī​dīng​dǒng

    unheeding the lessons of the past

    To ignore or forget lessons from history; specifically referring to the historical figures [[丁原|丁原|ding1 yuan2]] and [[董卓|董卓|dong3 zhuo2]] who were both betrayed by the same person

    不知 (literal) → 不知 · bù​zhī · not to know 丁 (literal) → 丁 · dīng · Ding 董 (literal) → 董 · dǒng · Dong

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense