Read Edit View history 殷鑒 yīnjiàn warnings from history Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 殷鉴 殷鑒 yīnjiàn 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." Frequency Written text 0.040 per million Cross-References Synonym 殷鉴不远 yīnjiànbùyuǎn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
殷鉴 殷鑒 yīnjiàn 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." Frequency Written text 0.040 per million Cross-References Synonym 殷鉴不远 yīnjiànbùyuǎn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)