积重难返 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 積重難返 jīzhòngnánfǎn ㄐㄧ ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄈㄢˇ ingrained habits are hard to overcome (idiom) bad old practices die hard Character by character 积(jī)amass 重(zhòng)heavy 难(nán)difficult 返(fǎn)return A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0