以史為鑒 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 以史为鉴 yǐshǐwéijiàn ㄧˇ ㄕˇ ㄨㄟˊ ㄐㄧㄢˋ 男 女 to learn from history (idiom) Character by character 以(yǐ)use 史(shǐ)surname Shi 為(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 鑒(jiàn) A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0