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后车之鉴

hòu chē zhī jiàn

4-character word Traditional 後車之鑒

What 后车之鉴 means

1. lit. warning to the following cart (idiom); don't follow the track of an overturned cart
2. fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor
3. learn from past mistake
4. once bitten twice shy

The characters in 后车之鉴

• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 车chēcar; vehicle; machine
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 鉴jiànbronze mirror (used in ancient times); to reflect; to mirror

Words containing 后车之鉴

• 前车之覆，后车之鉴qián chē zhī fù , hòu chē zhī jiànlit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom)…