不如归去

不如歸去

bùrú-guīqù

idiom

Meanings

1 better to go home
2 might as well give up and go home

Characters

to be as good as

Examples

HSK 6

在外面漂了十年，他觉得不如归去，就回老家开了个小店。

Zài wàimian piāo le shí nián, tā juéde bùrú-guīqù, jiù huí lǎojiā kāi le ge xiǎodiàn.

After ten years drifting from place to place, he decided he might as well go home, and opened a little shop in his hometown.

HSK 7-9

杜鹃鸟不停地叫着，好像在说“不如归去”。

Dùjuānniǎo bùtíng de jiào zhe, hǎoxiàng zài shuō " bùrú-guīqù ".

The cuckoo kept calling, as if it were saying "better to go home".

Tips

culture

The cuckoo's call was heard as 不如归去. Legend says 望帝, a king of ancient Shu, turned into the cuckoo after his death and cried until blood dripped from its beak, so in poetry the bird and the phrase stand for homesickness and for calling a traveler home.

Stroke Order

不 bù

如 rú

归 guī

去 qù