江山易改禀性难移
jiāng​shān​yì​gǎi​bǐng​xìng​nán​yí

old habits die hard

  • created sense approved 江山易改禀性难移/江山易改稟性難移 · jiāng​shān​yì​gǎi​bǐng​xìng​nán​yí · old habits die hard — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    江山易改禀性难移 / 江山易改稟性難移

    jiāng​shān​yì​gǎi​bǐng​xìng​nán​yí

    old habits die hard

    rivers and mountains are easy to change, but a person's character is hard to alter; used to mean that a person's basic nature is rooted so deeply that it is almost impossible to change

    江山 (literal) → 江山 · jiāng​shān · landscape 易 (literal) → 易 · yì · easy 改 (literal) → 改 · gǎi · to change 禀性 (literal) → 禀性/稟性 · bǐng​xìng · natural disposition 难 (literal) → 难/難 · nán · difficult 移 (literal) → 移 · yí · to change

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense