Entry
无wú颜yán见jiàn江Jiāng东dōng父fù老lǎo

  1. (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[Xiang4 Yu3], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)

    trad. 無顏見江東父老

Also written 無顏見江東父老【wú yán jiàn Jiāng dōng fù lǎo】

Characters in this word

7
老
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prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity, old (of people), venerable (person), experienced, of long standing, always, all the time, of the past, very, outdated, (of meat etc) tough

Pinyin
lǎo
Strokes
6
Frequency
511 of 2500
Words starting with 老Words ending in 老Anywhere in a word