Read Edit View history 殷鉴不远 yīnjiànbùyuǎn lessons from the past are close at hand Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 殷鉴不远 殷鑒不遠 yīnjiànbùyuǎn variant 殷鑑不遠 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. Frequency Written text 0.041 per million Cross-References Synonym 殷鉴 yīnjiàn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
殷鉴不远 殷鑒不遠 yīnjiànbùyuǎn variant 殷鑑不遠 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. Frequency Written text 0.041 per million Cross-References Synonym 殷鉴 yīnjiàn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)