积习难改 — Chinese idiom
积习难改
jī xí nán gǎi
Traditional: 積習難改
Meaning
- old habits are hard to change
Character by character
- 积jīto store up, to amass, to accumulate
- 习xíto study, to practice; habit
- 难nánhard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 改gǎito alter, to change, to improve, to remodel
Idioms sharing a character
- 厚积薄发 hòu jī bó fā
- 厝火积薪 cuò huǒ jī xīn
- 堆积如山 duī jī rú shān
- 积不相能 jī bù xiāng néng
- 积劳成疾 jī láo chéng jí
- 积土成山 jī tǔ chéng shān
- 积少成多 jī shǎo chéng duō
- 积年累月 jī nián lěi yuè
- 积恶余殃 jī è yú yāng
- 积于忽微 jī yú hū wēi
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