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Searching matches inside Chinese word: "江山易改本性難移" (traditional)

TraditionalEnglish Definition
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  *江* | 江* | *江
surname Jiang
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  *江* | 江* | *江
river / CL: 條|条,
Jiangshan, county-level city in Quzhou 衢州, Zhejiang
rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power
 
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  *山* | 山* | *山
surname Shan
 
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  *山* | 山* | *山
mountain; hill (CL:) / (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
  
  
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  *易* | 易* | *易
surname Yi / abbr. for 易經|易经, the Book of Changes
  
  
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  *易* | 易* | *易
easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
   
   gǎi
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  *改* | 改* | *改
to change / to alter / to transform / to correct
    
    běn
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  *本* | 本* | *本
(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
    
    běnxìng
natural instincts / nature / inherent quality
    
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)
     
     xìng
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  *性* | 性* | *性
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
      
      nán
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  *難* | 難* | *難
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
      
      nàn
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  *難* | 難* | *難
disaster / distress / to scold
       
       
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  *移* | 移* | *移
to move / to shift / to change / to alter / to remove