葉落歸根 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 叶落归根 yèluòguīgēn ㄧㄝˋ ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄨㄟ ㄍㄣ a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) everything has its ancestral home In old age, an expatriate longs to return home. Character by character 葉(yè)surname Ye 落(luò)fall or drop 歸(guī)surname Gui 根(gēn)root A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0