鉴往知来 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 鑒往知來 jiànwǎngzhīlái ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄨㄤˇ ㄓ ㄌㄞˊ to observe the past to foresee the future (idiom, taken loosely from Book of Songs) studying ancient wisdom gives insight into what is to come Character by character 鉴(jiàn)bronze mirror 往(wǎng)go 知(zhī)know 来(lái)come A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0