引以為鑑 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 引以为鉴 yǐnyǐwéijiàn ㄧㄣˇ ㄧˇ ㄨㄟˊ ㄐㄧㄢˋ to take a lesson from (an adverse experience) Character by character 引(yǐn)draw 以(yǐ)use 為(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 鑑(jiàn)bronze mirror A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0