Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「前轍可鑒」, with details below.
Introducing the idiom 「前轍可鑒」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It is a metaphor that previous failures can serve as lessons for the future. Same as “lessons from the past”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qián zhé kě jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chin4 chit3 ho2 gaam3
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