山河易改，本性难移山河易改，本性難移 in English
- (idiom) Habits that have become part of one’s nature are very difficult to change.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
山
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
河
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
易
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
改
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
本
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
性
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 5 forms
难
These are the forms of 難, the traditional character: 难 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
移
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).