万变不离其宗 wànbiànbùlíqízōng essence remains Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 万变不离其宗 (萬變不離其宗) wànbiànbùlíqízōng essence remains idiom many superficial changes but no departure from the original core essence (idiom); the more things change, the more they stay the same Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.268 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
万变不离其宗 (萬變不離其宗) wànbiànbùlíqízōng essence remains idiom many superficial changes but no departure from the original core essence (idiom); the more things change, the more they stay the same Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.268 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
