She leaned on the village gate, watching for her child.
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history
Not used alone in modern Chinese; it survives in literary words — 闾里 (one's home village) and 闾阎 (the common people). The inside 吕 is the phonetic, the same element in 侣 and 铝.
culture
倚闾而望 — a mother leaning on the village gate watching for a child to return — became a stock image of parental longing in classical writing.
