後車之鑒 — hou4 che1 zhi1 jian4

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後

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後

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之

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Definitions4 characters

hou⁴ che¹ zhi¹ jian⁴

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

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Pronunciations

後

車

之

鑒

As word

hou⁴

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

che¹

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

zhi¹

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

jian⁴

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