鑒往知來 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 鉴往知来 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 鑒(jiàn) 往(wǎng)go 知(zhī)know 來(lái)come A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0