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
trad. 樹高千丈，葉落歸根
Also written 樹高千丈，葉落歸根【shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn】
Characters in this word
8树
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tree, CL:棵[ke1], to cultivate, to set up
- Pinyin
- shù
- Traditional
- 樹
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2862 of 2500
高
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surname Gao
- Pinyin
- Gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 681 of 2500
千
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thousand
- Pinyin
- qiān
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 5441 of 2500
丈
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measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m), to measure, husband, polite appellation for an older male
- Pinyin
- zhàng
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 25048 of 2500
叶
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to be in harmony
- Pinyin
- xié
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 8504 of 2500
落
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to leave out, to be missing, to leave behind or forget to bring, to lag or fall behind
- Pinyin
- là
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 4185 of 2500
归
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surname Gui
- Pinyin
- Guī
- Traditional
- 歸
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 3299 of 2500
根
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root, basis, classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings, CL:條|条[tiao2], radical (chemistry)
- Pinyin
- gēn
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 5176 of 2500