It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.; Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
trad. 本性難移
Also written 本性難移【běn xìng nán yí】
Characters in this word
4本
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(bound form) root; stem, (bound form) origin; source, (bound form) one's own; this, (bound form) this; the current (year etc), (bound form) original, (bound form) inherent, originally; initially, capital; principal, classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
- Pinyin
- běn
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 799 of 2500
性
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nature, character, property, quality, attribute, sexuality, sex, gender, suffix forming adjective from verb, suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity, essence, CL:個|个[ge4]
- Pinyin
- xìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 2159 of 2500
难
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difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good
- Pinyin
- nán
- Traditional
- 難
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1327 of 2500
移
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to move, to shift, to change, to alter, to remove
- Pinyin
- yí
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 12964 of 2500