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叶落归根

yèluòguīgēn

Traditional: 葉落歸根

a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.

Character Breakdown

叶
yè
leaf, page; surname
HSK 4
落
luò
to fall, to drop; surplus, net income
HSK 4
归
guī
to return, to go back; to return to, to revert
HSK 5
根
gēn
root, basis, foundation
HSK 3

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