- lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback
Characters
- 东 (東): surname Dong
- 山 (山): surname Shan
- 再 (再): again; once more; re-; second; another; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis)
- 起 (起): to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
Resources
- Wiktionary: 东山再起
- MDBG: 东山再起
- Examples with 东山再起 on Tatoeba
Examples
你会东山再起的。