温故而知新
Traditional form:
溫故而知新
Pinyin (reading):
wēngù'érzhīxīn
Definitions:
- to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)
- to recall the past to understand the future
Characters:
- 温 - warm, lukewarm
- 故 - reason, cause; happening, instance
- 而 - and, and then, and yet; but
- 知 - to know, to perceive, to comprehend
- 新 - new, recent, fresh, modern
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