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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 叶落归根

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
叶落归根 yè luò guī gēn - a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home
- In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 75,891 84,748 73,274

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
叶 xié- to be in harmony
叶 yè- surname Ye
叶 yè- leaf
- page
- lobe
- (historical) period
- classifier for small boats
落 là- to leave out
- to be missing
- to leave behind or forget to bring
- to lag or fall behind
落 lào- colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
落 luò- to fall or drop
- (of the sun) to set
- (of a tide) to go out
- to lower
- to decline or sink
- to lag or fall behind
- to fall onto
- to rest with
- to get or receive
- to write down
- whereabouts
- settlement
归 guī- surname Gui
归 guī- to return
- to go back to
- to give back to
- (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by
- to belong to
- to gather together
- (used between two identical verbs) despite
- to marry (of a woman) (old)
- division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
根 gēn- root
- basis
- classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
- CL:條|条[tiao2]
- radical (chemistry)

Other Words Containing 叶落归根

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
叶落归根 - - 75,891 84,748 73,274