空手而归
Traditional form:
空手而歸
Pinyin (reading):
kōngshǒu'érguī
Definitions:
- to return empty-handed
- to fail to win anything
Characters:
- 空 - hollow, empty, deserted, bare
- 手 - hand
- 而 - and, and then, and yet; but
- 归 - to return, to go back; to return to, to revert
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