前辙可鉴

前辙可鉴 in English

qián zhé kě jiàn: (idiom) Earlier failures can serve as lessons for the future. The expression is synonymous with the idiom referring to the previous vehicle as a warning.

Character breakdown

前 qián front
辙轍 chè to remove
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 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

辙

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

Small seal script

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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