lit. warning to the following cart (idiom); don't follow the track of an overturned cart; fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor; learn from past mistake; once bitten twice shy
trad. 後車之鑒
Also written 後車之鑒【hòu chē zhī jiàn】
Characters in this word
4后
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surname Hou
- Pinyin
- Hòu
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 233 of 2500
车
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surname Che
- Pinyin
- Chē
- Traditional
- 車
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 460 of 2500
之
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(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 475 of 2500
鉴
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variant of 鑑|鉴[jian4]
- Pinyin
- jiàn
- Traditional
- 鋻
- Strokes
- 13