鄉 (xiāng)
countryside; village; hometown
How 鄉 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 丿 — bend
- Traditional
- 鄉
- Simplified
- 乡
Components
- 丿 bend
- 丨 line
- 彐 pig snout
- 乚 second
- 丶 dot
- 阝 town
Common words using 鄉
- 他鄉 tāxiāng
- foreign land; away from one's native place
- 家鄉 jiāxiāng
- hometown; native place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 故鄉 gùxiāng
- home; homeland; native place
- 異鄉 yìxiāng
- foreign land; a place far from home
- 老鄉 lǎoxiāng
- fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
- 返鄉 fǎnxiāng
- to return to one's home town
- 鄉下 xiāngxià
- country (as opposed to town or city); rural; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 鄉村 xiāngcūn
- rustic; village; countryside
- 鄉里 xiānglǐ
- one's home town or village
- 下鄉 xiàxiāng
- to go to the countryside
- 入鄉隨俗 rùxiāngsuísú
- When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do; When in Rome, do as the Romans do
- 同鄉 tóngxiāng
- person from the same village, town, or province
鄉 in a sentence
我喜歡鄉下的空氣。
Wǒ xǐhuān xiāngxià de kōngqì.
“I like the air in the countryside.”
How common is 鄉?
鄉 is the 920th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 87.8% of all running text.
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