继往开来
Traditional form:
繼往開來
Pinyin (reading):
jìwǎngkāilái
Definitions:
- to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition
- forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
Characters:
- 继 - to continue, to carry on; to succeed, to inherit
- 往 - to go, to depart; past, former
- 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 来 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
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