




倒冠落珮 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to shed official attire and retire to a reclusive life”. To live as a recluse. Literally, “To invert one's cap and drop one's pendants”.

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Open the tool →倒冠落珮 (dǎo guàn luò pèi) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to shed official attire and retire to a reclusive life”.
倒冠落珮 is pronounced dǎo guàn luò pèi in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 倒冠落珮 means “to invert one's cap and drop one's pendants”. It is used to mean “to shed official attire and retire to a reclusive life”.
①指弃官归隐。冠、珮是官员正服的打扮。②指隐者装束。亦作“倒冠落佩”。