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hometown / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
home / homeland / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乡* | 乡* | *乡
country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
HSK 5
rustic / village / countryside
HSK 5
city and countryside
HSK 6
fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
HSK 6
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
to go to the countryside
HSK 7-9
countryside / rural area / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
Pingxi or Pinghsi township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Xinfeng or Hsinfeng township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
Wangan township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
Wushitala Hui village in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Neixiang county in Nanyang 南陽|南阳, Henan
Xiangxiang, a county-level city in Xiangtan City 湘潭市, Hunan
Fangliao township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
Dongxiang or East village (place name) / Donxiang (ethnic group) / Dongxiang County in Fuzhou 撫州|抚州, Jiangxi
Shuilin township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Tungyin township in Lienchiang county 連江縣|连江县 i.e. the Matsu Islands, Taiwan
Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
Qionglin or Chiunglin township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
country music (country & western music genre)
Baixiang county in Xingtai 邢台, Hebei
village chief / mayor (of village or township)
(idiom) to retire from official service due to old age and return to one's hometown
Emei township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
village / township
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
Linkou township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
village doctor (Chinese health care system)
Fuli township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
mountain area
Jinxiang County in Jining 濟寧|济宁, Shandong
in the country / rural / pastoral
(Korean term) women who returned to Korea after being abducted during the Manchu invasions of Korea in the 17th century, only to be regarded as defiled and therefore ostracized, even by their own families
Dacun Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
one's home town or village
person from the same village, town, or province
Xikou or Hsikou Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
the land of dreams / slumberland
hometown of overseas Chinese
homesickness
(literary) to return to one's native place
to be homesick
lit. to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom) / fig. to return home after making good / Taiwan pr. [yi4 jin3 huan2 xiang1]
Pingxiang county in Xingtai 邢台, Hebei
to return to one's home town
Sihu (or Ssuhu) township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
another part of the country / some other place
Xiangning county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
Erlun or Erhlun township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
local accent / accent of one's native place
villager / fellow villager
foreign land / away from one's native place
(derog.) villager / hick / bumpkin
Wuxiang county in Changzhi 長治|长治, Shanxi
Liangxiang town in Beijing municipality
home village / one's native place
(lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
Wugu township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Xixiang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
Anxiang county in Changde 常德, Hunan
foreign land / a place far from home
a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire
villager / (Tw) (Internet slang) person who likes to follow online discussions and add their opinions
Xiangcheng county (Tibetan: phyag 'phreng rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
Santimen township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing
homesick
to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers) / forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
young fellow countryman / young person from the same village
a remote and desolate place
fellow villager
Chinning township in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县 (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
remote village
far from town / out-of-the-way place
(literary) hypocrite / two-faced person
rural township in Miaoli County 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
Lugu or Luku Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
stranger
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
Fanlu Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
one's native place / place of ancestry / registered birthplace
Sanwan township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)
Xinxiang, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省
a stranger / out-of-towner
country folk / rustic / rural folk
patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu
Shuili Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) (abbr. to 住建部)

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