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unchangeable, remains the same, character is difficult to improve (Lit. If you lead a cow to Beijing, it is still a cow.)

牛牽到北京還是牛,永遠改不掉壞習慣

khafn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khafn; (khiefn) [[...]][i#] [p.]

lead an animal with a rope, lead a person by the hand, drag along (a net), draw (a sound) out long, involve

牽,拉,拖累

khafn gyn'ar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khafn girn'ar [[...]][i#] [p.]
lead a child by the hand
牽孩子

khafn y khylaai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khafn y khie'laai [[...]][i#] [p.]
take his hand and raise him up
拉他起來

khan'guzhvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khafn'guu'zhvef [[...]][i#] [p.]

star Altair

牽牛星

khan'gu'hoef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khafn'guu'hoef [[...]][i#] [p.]

morning glory

牽牛花

puu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: puu [[...]][i#] [p.]

type of gourd, bottle gourd, calabash

匏

holoo-puu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hoo'loo'puu; hoo'loo-puu [[...]][i#] [p.]
type of gourd much larger at one end
葫蘆匏

Seahaxn thaubarn puu, toaxhaxn thaukhafn guu. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Sex'haxn thaw'barn puu, toa'haxn thaw'khafn guu.; Søex'haxn thaw'barn puu, toa'haxn thaw'khafn guu. [[...]][i#] [p.]
If a child gets into the habit of stealing trifles, he will steal big things when he grows up.
小時偷雞摸狗,大時殺人放火。

søeahaxn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sex'haxn; søex'haxn [[...]][i#] [p.]

short or small (in stature), in childhood

矮小,年少

seahaxn ee sii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sex'haxn ee sii [[...]][i#] [p.]
When one was a child
小的時候

Seahaxn thaubarn puu, toaxhaxn thaukhafn guu. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Sex'haxn thaw'barn puu, toa'haxn thaw'khafn guu.; Søex'haxn thaw'barn puu, toa'haxn thaw'khafn guu. [[...]][i#] [p.]
If as a child you steal gourds, as an adult, you'll steal cows. — as the twig is bent, so grows the tree
小時偷雞摸狗,大時殺人放火。

to put the saddle on the wrong horse; (literally: to bring a boar to the cow market)

張冠李戴,牛頭不對馬嘴

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