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无颜见江东父老

wú yán jiàn Jiāng dōng fù lǎo

7-character word Traditional 無顏見江東父老

What 无颜见江东父老 means

1. idiomto be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu {项羽|Xiàng Yǔ}, who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)

The characters in 无颜见江东父老

• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 颜yáncolor; face; countenance
• 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)
• 江jiāngriver
• 东dōngeast; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlord
• 父fù(bound form) father; (bound form) male relative of father's generation…
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…