Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「執而不化」. Explanation below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「執而不化」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Refers to being stubborn and inflexible.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhí ér bù huà
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jap1 yi4 bat1 fa3
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.

