引以为戒 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 引以為戒 yǐnyǐwéijiè ㄧㄣˇ ㄧˇ ㄨㄟˊ ㄐㄧㄝˋ to take sth as a warning (idiom) to draw a lesson from a case where things turned out badly Character by character 引(yǐn)draw 以(yǐ)use 为(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 戒(jiè)guard against A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0