温故知新
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- to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)
- to recall the past to understand the future
wēn gù zhī xīnwenguzhixin
Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences