| 前车之鉴 |
qián chē zhī jiàn |
lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom) / fig. lesson learned by observing others' failures |
| 前车之鉴 |
qián chē zhī jiàn |
variant of 前车之鉴 |
| 前 |
qián |
front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly |
| 车 |
Chē |
surname Che |
| 车 |
chē |
car / vehicle / CL:辆 / machine / to shape with a lathe / Kangxi radical 159 |
| 车 |
jū |
war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess) |
| 之 |
zhī |
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it |
| 鉴 |
jiàn |
variant of 鉴 |
| 鉴 |
jiàn |
old variant of 鉴 |
| 鉴 |
jiàn |
bronze mirror (used in ancient times) / to reflect / to mirror / sth that serves as a warning or a lesson / to examine / to scrutinize |
| 鉴 |
jiàn |
variant of 鉴 |