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Definitions
1. to return home
2. fig. to retire from public life
Components
还
Huán
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surname Huan
乡
xiāng
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country or countryside
Related Words
还乡女
huán xiāng nǚ
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(Korean term) women who returned to Korea after being abducted during the Manchu invasions of Korea in the 17th century, only to be regarded as defiled and therefore ostracized, even by their own families
衣锦还乡
yì jǐn huán xiāng
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to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); to return in glory
告老还乡
gào lǎo huán xiāng
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to retire and return to one's hometown