積重難返 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 积重难返 jīzhòngnánfǎn ㄐㄧ ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄈㄢˇ ingrained habits are hard to overcome (idiom) bad old practices die hard Character by character 積(jī)amass 重(zhòng)heavy 難(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