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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 温故知新

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
温故知新 wēn gù zhī xīn - to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)
- to recall the past to understand the future

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
- - 66,727 95,141 64,366

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
wēn- surname Wen
wēn- warm; lukewarm
- to warm up
- (bound form) temperature
- (bound form) mild; soft; tender
- to review (a lesson etc)
- (TCM) fever
- epidemic; pestilence (old variant of 瘟[wen1])
- happening
- instance
- reason
- cause
- intentional
- former
- old
- friend
- therefore
- hence
- (of people) to die, dead
zhī- to know
- to be aware
xīn- abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1jiang1]
- abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1jia1po1]
- surname Xin
xīn- new
- newly
- meso- (chemistry)

Other Words Containing 温故知新

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
温故知新 - - 66,727 95,141 64,366