痛改前非 — Chinese idiom
痛改前非
tòng gǎi qián fēi
Meaning
- completely correcting one's former misdeeds ; to repent past mistakes and turn over a new leaf
- a reformed character
Character by character
- 痛tòngache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly
- 改gǎito alter, to change, to improve, to remodel
- 前qiánin front, forward; former, preceding
- 非fēinot, negative, non-; to oppose
Idioms sharing a character
- 不痛不痒 bù tòng bù yǎng
- 创巨痛深 chuāng jù tòng shēn
- 悲痛欲绝 bēi tòng yù jué
- 深恶痛绝 shēn wù tòng jué
- 无关痛痒 wú guān tòng yǎng
- 痛定思痛 tòng dìng sī tòng
- 痛心疾首 tòng xīn jí shǒu
- 迎头痛击 yíng tóu tòng jī
- 头痛欲裂 tóu tòng yù liè
- 一改故辙 yī gǎi gù zhé
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