{"path":"/entry/96614","title":"衣锦还乡 / 衣錦還鄉 (yī jǐn huán xiāng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"衣锦还乡 / 衣錦還鄉 (yī jǐn huán xiāng): literally to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":96614,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["衣锦还乡"],"TRADITIONAL":["衣錦還鄉"]}},"phonetic":"yī jǐn huán xiāng","phoneticKey":"yi1 jin3 huan2 xiang1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally to come back to one's hometown in silken robes ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively to return home after making good","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[{"gloss":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"Taiwan ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null},{"kind":"TEXT","text":"pronunciation: ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null},{"kind":"PHONETIC","text":"yì jǐn huán xiāng","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":"yi4 jin3 huan2 xiang1","readingId":null}]}]}}],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","VERB"],"frequency":41552,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["还"],"TRADITIONAL":["還"]}},"phonetic":"huán","primaryPhonetic":"hái"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":96613,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["衣锦荣归"],"TRADITIONAL":["衣錦榮歸"]}},"phonetic":"yī jǐn róng guī","gloss":{"simplified":"to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom)","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":"to return to one's hometown in silken robes","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"First attested in the Book of Liang:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"The idiom is possibly derived from an analogy made by Xiang Yu, as recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"高祖饯于新亭，谓曰：「卿衣锦还乡，朕无西顾之忧矣。」","traditional":"高祖餞於新亭，謂曰：「卿衣錦還鄉，朕無西顧之憂矣。」"},"phonetic":"Gāozǔ jiàn yú Xīntíng, wèi yuē: “Qīng yījǐnháixiāng, zhèn wú xī gù zhī yōu yǐ.”","english":null,"ref":"c. 634, Yao Silian, Book of Liang"},{"text":{"simplified":"项王见秦宫皆以烧残破，又心怀思欲东归，曰：「富贵不归故乡，如衣锦夜行，谁知之者？」","traditional":"項王見秦宮皆以燒殘破，又心懷思欲東歸，曰：「富貴不歸故鄉，如衣錦夜行，誰知之者？」"},"phonetic":"Xiàng wáng jiàn Qín gōng jiē yǐ shāo cánpò, yòu xīnhuái sī yù dōng guī, yuē: “Fùguì bù guī gùxiāng, rú yījǐn yèxíng, shéi zhī zhī zhě?”","english":"Seeing the palace of Qin was burnt to the ground, Xiang Yu wondered if he should go eastward to his hometown, saying: \"To not return home when one has made his fortune is like walking in the night with silken robes, who will notice?\"","ref":"The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}