铩羽而归
Traditional form:
鎩羽而歸
Pinyin (reading):
shāyǔ'érguī
Definitions:
- to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions (idiom)
Characters:
- 铩 - spear; to injure
- 羽 - feather, plume; wings
- 而 - and, and then, and yet; but
- 归 - to return, to go back; to return to, to revert
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