重蹈覆辙 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 重蹈覆轍 chóngdǎofùzhé ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄉㄠˇ ㄈㄨˋ ㄓㄜˊ lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom) fig. to follow a path that led to failure in the past to repeat a disastrous mistake Character by character 重(chóng)repeat 蹈(dǎo)tread on 覆(fù)cover 辙(zhé)rut A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0