鎩羽而歸 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 铩羽而归 shāyǔérguī ㄕㄚ ㄩˇ ㄦˊ ㄍㄨㄟ to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions idiom Character by character 鎩(shā)spear 羽(yǔ)feather 而(ér)and 歸(guī)surname Gui A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0