归根 (歸根) guīgēn

guīgēn verb to return home (after a lifetime's absence); to go back to one's roots
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '歸根')

Contained in

• 叶落归根(葉落歸根) a falling leaf returns to the roots; everything has its ancestral home ; falling leaves return to their roots

Also contained in

归根结蒂 、 归根到底 、 树高千丈，叶落归根 、 归根究柢 、 落叶归根 、 归根结底 、 归根结柢

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 98 Zong Jing Lu 宗鏡錄 — count: 2 , has English translation
• Scroll 10 Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載 — count: 1
• Scroll 2 Shi Men Bian Huo Lun 十門辯惑論 — count: 1
• Scroll 2 Bian Wei Lu 辯偽錄 — count: 1
• Scroll 17 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 1
• Scroll 1 The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 六祖大師法寶壇經 — count: 1 , has English translation
• Scroll 5 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 1
• Scroll 13 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 1 , has English translation
• Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄 — count: 1
• Scroll 1 The Compendium of the Doctrines and Styles of the Teaching of Mani, the Buddha of Light 摩尼光佛教法儀略 — count: 1