We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「溫故知新」.
Discover the idiom 「溫故知新」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Wen: review; Gu: old. Review old knowledge and gain new understanding and experience. It also means that recalling the past can help us better understand the present.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wēn gù zhī xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wan1 gu3 ji1 san1
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