無顏見江東父老 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 无颜见江东父老 wúyánjiànjiāngdōngfùlǎo ㄨˊ ㄧㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄐㄧㄤ ㄉㄨㄥ ㄈㄨˋ ㄌㄠˇ 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) idiom Character by character 無(wú)not to have 顏(yán)surname Yan 見(jiàn)see 江(jiāng)surname Jiang 東(dōng)surname Dong 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 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0