Read Edit View history 万变不离其宗 wànbiànbùlíqízōng essence remains Origin Definitions Defs 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)