江山易改，本性難移

Chinese

	rivers and mountains; the land; a landscape rivers and mountains; the land; a landscape; the country; the state power	change; easy; simple	to change; to alter; to transform to change; to alter; to transform; to correct		one's inherent nature	disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good	to move; to shift; to change to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove
trad. (江山易改，本性難移)	江山	易	改	，	本性	難	移
simp. (江山易改，本性难移)	江山	易	改	，	本性	难	移
Literally: “The rivers and mountains are easily altered, but one's inherent nature is difficult to change”.

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiāngshān yì gǎi, běnxìng nán yí

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄤㄕㄢㄧˋ ㄍㄞˇ, ㄅㄣˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gong¹ saan¹ ji⁶ goi², bun² sing³ naan⁴ ji⁴

江山易改，本性難移

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