破旧立新 (破舊立新)
pò jiù lì xīn
Pinyin

Definition

破旧立新 (破舊立新)
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pò jiù lì xīn
  1. to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Xīn
  1. 1 abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xīn jiāng] or Singapore 新加坡[Xīn jiā pō]
  2. 2 surname Xin
xīn zēng
  1. 1 newly added
  2. 2 additional
  3. 3 to add (to what already exists)
xīn nián
  1. 1 New Year
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
xīn chūn
  1. 1 the beginning of Spring
  2. 2 the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day
Xīn làng
  1. 1 Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company

Idioms (20)

一语道破
yī yǔ dào pò
  1. 1 one word says it all (idiom)
  2. 2 to hit the nail on the head
  3. 3 to be pithy and correct
三十而立
sān shí ér lì
  1. 1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
不是鱼死就是网破
bù shì yú sǐ jiù shì wǎng pò
  1. 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
  3. 3 it's either him or me
乘风破浪
chéng fēng pò làng
  1. 1 to brave the wind and the billows (idiom); to have high ambitions
势不两立
shì bù liǎng lì
  1. 1 the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences
  2. 2 incompatible standpoints