弃官归乡

棄官歸鄉
qìguānguīxiāng
  1. (literary) to quit one's official post, and return to one's home village
  2. to quit one's official post, and return to one's home village

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 弃 qì
  1. to abandon
  2. to relinquish
  3. to discard
  4. to throw away
=2 官 Guān surname Guan
=2 官 guān
  1. government official
  2. governmental
  3. official
  4. public
  5. organ of the body

classifier: 個
=3 归 Guī surname Gui
=3 归 guī
  1. to return
  2. to go back to
  3. to give back to
  4. (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by
  5. to belong to
  6. to gather together
  7. (used between two identical verbs) despite
  8. to marry (of a woman) (old)
  9. division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
4 乡 xiāng
  1. country or countryside
  2. native place
  3. home village or town
  4. township (PRC administrative unit)