改邪归正 — Chinese idiom
改邪归正
gǎi xié guī zhèng
Traditional: 改邪歸正
Meaning
- to mend one's ways
- to turn over a new leaf
Character by character
- 改gǎito alter, to change, to improve, to remodel
- 邪xiéwrong, evil, demonic; perverse, depraved, heterodo
- 归guīto return, to go back; to return to, to revert
- 正zhèngstraight, right, proper, correct, just, true
Idioms sharing a character
- 一改故辙 yī gǎi gù zhé
- 幡然改图 fān rán gǎi tú
- 改弦易辙 gǎi xián yì zhé
- 改过自新 gǎi guò zì xīn
- 改头换面 gǎi tóu huàn miàn
- 朝令夕改 zhāo lìng xī gǎi
- 朝闻夕改 zhāo wén xī gǎi
- 朝过夕改 zhāo guò xī gǎi
- 死不改悔 sǐ bù gǎi huǐ
- 痛改前非 tòng gǎi qián fēi
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