ingrained habits are hard to overcome (idiom); bad old practices die hard
trad. 積重難返
Also written 積重難返【jī zhòng nán fǎn】
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4积
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to amass; to accumulate; to store up, (math.) product (the result of multiplication), (TCM) constipation; indigestion
- Pinyin
- jī
- Traditional
- 積
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 34378 of 2500
重
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to repeat, repetition, again, re-, classifier: layer
- Pinyin
- chóng
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2482 of 2500
难
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difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good
- Pinyin
- nán
- Traditional
- 難
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1327 of 2500
返
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to return (to)
- Pinyin
- fǎn
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 16775 of 2500