无颜见江东父老
Traditional form:
無顏見江東父老
Pinyin (reading):
wúyánjiàn Jiāngdōngfùlǎo
Definitions:
- (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽／项羽 ( Xiàng Yǔ), who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
Characters:
- 无 - no, not; lacking, -less
- 颜 - face, facial appearance
- 见 - to see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- 江 - large river; the Yangtze; surname
- 东 - east, eastern, eastward
- 父 - father, dad
- 老 - old, aged; experienced
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