本性難移 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 本性难移 běnxìngnányí ㄅㄣˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄧˊ 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) Character by character 本(běn)root 性(xìng)nature 難(nán)difficult 移(yí)move A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0