无颜见江东父老

wú yán jiàn jiāng dōng fù lǎo

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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[xiàng yǔ], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)

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Child Words of 无颜见江东父老

• 东 东 dōng: east
• 江 江 jiāng: river
• 无 无 wú: not to have
• 见 见 jiàn: to see
• 见 见 xiàn: to appear
• 江东 江东 jiāng dōng: Jiangdong district of Ningbo city 寧波市|宁波市[níng bō shì], Zhejiang
• 父 父 fù: father
• 父老 父老 fù lǎo: elders
• 颜 颜 yán: color
• 老 老 lǎo: 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