告老還鄉 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 告老还乡 gàolǎohuánxiāng ㄍㄠˋ ㄌㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤ to retire from official service due to old age and return to one's hometown idiom Character by character 告(gào)say 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 還(huán)give back 鄉(xiāng)country or countryside A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0