前车可鉴

前车可鉴 in English

qián chē kě jiàn: (idiom) The failures of those who came before should be taken as a warning so that the same mistakes are not repeated.

Character breakdown

前 qián front
车車 chē car
可 kě (prefix) can
鉴鑒 jiàn bronze mirror (used in ancient times)

Stroke order

Le caractère 前 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 前

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 车 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 车

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 可 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 可

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

前

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

车

These are the forms of 車, the traditional character: 车 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

可

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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