樹高千丈，落葉歸根

see 樹高千丈，葉落歸根|树高千丈，叶落归根[shu4 gao1 qian1 zhang4 , ye4 luo4 gui1 gen1]

tree / CL:棵[ke1] / to cultivate / to set up

surname Gao

high / tall / above average / loud / your (honorific)

thousand

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male

to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind

colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds

to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement

dead leaves / to lose leaves (of plants) / deciduous

leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname

surname Gui

to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor

Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬[Zhang1 Yang2], starring 趙本山|赵本山[Zhao4 Ben3 shan1]

lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home

to return home (after a lifetime's absence) / to go back to one's roots

root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL:條|条[tiao2] / radical (chemistry)