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樹高千丈,葉落歸根

fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home

Characters and words in 樹高千丈,葉落歸根

shù = shu + Ø4
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gāo = g + ao1
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gāo = g + ao1
high / tall / above average / loud / your (honorific)
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qiān = qi + an1
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qiān = qi + an1
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zhàng = zh + ang4
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
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= y + e4
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname
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a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
= l + a4
to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind
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lào = l + ao4
colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
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luò = lu + o4
to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement
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guī = gu + ei1
guī = gu + ei1
to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
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to return home (after a lifetime's absence) / to go back to one's roots
gēn = g + (e)n1
root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL:條|条[tiao2] / radical (chemistry)
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Words with 樹高千丈,葉落歸根

樹高千丈,葉落歸根 is not used as a component in another word.

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