殷鉴不远
yīn​jiàn​bù​yuǎn

lessons from the past are close at hand

  • created reference approved 殷鉴不远/殷鑒不遠 → 殷鉴不远/殷鑑不遠 (variant) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    殷鉴不远 / 殷鑒不遠 yīn​jiàn​bù​yuǎn

    殷鉴不远 / 殷鑑不遠 yīn​jiàn​bù​yuǎn

    variant

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 殷鉴不远/殷鑒不遠 · yīn​jiàn​bù​yuǎn · lessons from the past are close at hand — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    殷鉴不远 / 殷鑒不遠

    yīn​jiàn​bù​yuǎn

    lessons from the past are close at hand

    The lessons of history are not far to seek; used to say that one should take warning from the failures of those who came before.

    殷鑑不遠

    殷鉴 (literal) → 殷鉴/殷鑒 · yīn​jiàn · warnings from history 不远 (literal) → 不远/不遠 · bù​yuǎn · not far

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

    created sense