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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- to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xīn jiāng] or Singapore 新加坡[Xīn jiā pō]
- 2 surname Xin
- 1 newly added
- 2 additional
- 3 to add (to what already exists)
- 1 the beginning of Spring
- 2 the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day
- 1 Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company
Idioms (20)
一语道破
- 1 one word says it all (idiom)
- 2 to hit the nail on the head
- 3 to be pithy and correct
三十而立
- 1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
不是鱼死就是网破
- 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
- 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
- 3 it's either him or me
乘风破浪
- 1 to brave the wind and the billows (idiom); to have high ambitions
势不两立
- 1 the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences
- 2 incompatible standpoints