无颜见江东父老
Traditional: 無顏見江東父老Dictionary entry
(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)
What does 无颜见江东父老 mean?
无颜见江东父老 (wú yán jiàn Jiāng dōng fù lǎo) has the following dictionary meaning.
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)
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无móused in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]颜Yánsurname Yan见jiànto see · to meet江Jiāngsurname Jiang · (bound form) Yangtze River东Dōngsurname Dong父fù(bound form) father · (bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父[bo2 fu4])老lǎoprefix 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)
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无颜见江东父老
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