







百变不离其宗 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “no matter how varied the forms or methods”. The underlying principle or essence remains the same. Literally, “countless changes but never departing from its essence/core”.

Choose character parts and animate their colors, together or in stroke order
Open the tool →
Picture and word Bingo for your class
Open the tool →
Chinese and English fill-in vocabulary worksheets
Open the tool →
Turn a Chinese character or sentence into a GIF or MP4
Open the tool →百变不离其宗 (bǎi biàn bù lí qí zōng) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “no matter how varied the forms or methods”.
百变不离其宗 is pronounced bǎi biàn bù lí qí zōng in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 百变不离其宗 means “countless changes but never departing from its essence/core”. It is used to mean “no matter how varied the forms or methods”.
宗:本,主旨。指形式上变化多端,其本质或目的不变