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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「少成若性」 and how it’s used.

This feature highlights the idiom 「少成若性」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It means that habits formed since childhood are like nature.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǎo chéng ruò xìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

siu2 sing4 yeuk6 sing3

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