- a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home
- In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
Characters
- 叶 (叶): to be in harmony
- 落 (落): to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind
- 归 (歸): surname Gui
- 根 (根): root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)
Resources
- Wiktionary: 叶落归根
- MDBG: 叶落归根
- Examples with 叶落归根 on Tatoeba
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