推陈出新
tuī​chén​chū​xīn

to innovate

  • created sense approved 推陈出新/推陳出新 · tuī​chén​chū​xīn · to innovate — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    推陈出新 / 推陳出新

    tuī​chén​chū​xīn

    to innovate

    to push out the old and bring in the new; to weed out the old and create something fresh by improving on existing foundations

    推 (literal) → 推 · tuī · to remove 陈 (literal) → 陈/陳 · chén · old 出新 (literal) → 出新 · chū​xīn · to innovate

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

    created sense