东山再起

lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback

surname Dong

east / host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest) / landlord

Dongshan county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhang1 zhou1], Fujian / Tungshan township in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[Tai2 nan2 xian4], Taiwan

mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

again; once more; re- / second; another / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis)

to arise again / to make a comeback / resurgence

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group