无颜见江东父老

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

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Character by character

• 无(wú)not to have
• 颜(yán)color
• 见(jiàn)see
• 江(jiāng)river
• 东(dōng)east
• 父(fù)father
• 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