| 树 | shù | tree; CL:棵 |
| 高 | gāo | high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific); surname Gao |
| 千 | qiān | a swing; thousand |
| 丈 | zhàng | ten feet |
| 叶 | yè | leaf; page; lobe; (historical) period; surname Ye |
| 落 | là | to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind |
| 落 | lào | alight; to fall; to drop (behind) |
| 落 | luò | 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 |
| 落 | luō | |
| 归 | guī | to go back; to return; to return or give back sth; to resign; to surrender; (of a woman) to get married (old) |
| 根 | gēn | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:条; radical (chemistry) |
| 叶落归根 | yè luò guī gēn | a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home; In old age, an expatriate longs to return home. |
