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Definition(s) for: 前车之鉴

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
前车之鉴 qián chē zhī jiàn - lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom)
- fig. lesson learned by observing others' failures
前车之鉴 qián chē zhī jiàn - variant of 前車之鑑|前车之鉴[qian2che1 zhi1 jian4]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 29,993 34,917 34,963

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
qián- front
- forward
- ahead
- first
- top (followed by a number)
- future
- ago
- before
- BC (e.g. 前293年)
- former
- formerly
chē- surname Che
chē- car
- vehicle
- CL:輛|辆[liang4]
- machine
- to shape with a lathe
- Kangxi radical 159
- war chariot (archaic)
- rook (in Chinese chess)
- rook (in chess)
zhī- (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])
- him
- her
- it
jiàn- variant of 鑑|鉴[jian4]
jiàn- old variant of 鑒|鉴[jian4]
jiàn- bronze mirror (used in ancient times)
- to reflect
- to mirror
- sth that serves as a warning or a lesson
- to examine
- to scrutinize
jiàn- variant of 鑑|鉴[jian4]

Other Words Containing 前车之鉴

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
前车之鉴 - - 29,993 34,917 34,963