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  *乡* | 乡* | *乡
country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
HSK 5
hometown / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
home / homeland / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
city and countryside
HSK 6
Dongxiang ethnic group
rustic / village / countryside
HSK 5
to go to the countryside
HSK 7-9
Xinxiang, a county in Xinxiang City 新鄉市|新乡市, Henan
townships and towns (collective term for the two principal township-level administrative divisions) / small towns (general sense)
countryside / rural area / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
local accent / accent of one's native place
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
village chief / mayor (of village or township)
country music (country & western music genre)
mountain area
fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
HSK 6
a stranger / out-of-towner
Ningxiang, a county-level city in Changsha City 長沙市|长沙市, Hunan
foreign land / a place far from home
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
to be homesick
Baixiang, a county in Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市, Hebei
person from the same village, town, or province
fellow villager
in the country / rural / pastoral
hometown of overseas Chinese
fairyland / honorific: your homeland
country folk / rustic / rural folk
patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu / same as 江南水鄉|江南水乡
villager / fellow villager
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
one's home town or village
(derog.) country bumpkin; hick
(HK) rural area on the outskirts of a town or city; rural-urban fringe
to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers) / forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals
village doctor (Chinese health care system)
ethnic township (formal village level subdivision of PRC county)
villager; hick
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
the land of dreams / slumberland
homesickness / nostalgia
a relative / a family member
villager / (Tw) (Internet slang) person who likes to follow online discussions and add their opinions
Dongxiang, a district of Fuzhou City 撫州市|抚州市, Jiangxi
foreign land / away from one's native place
regional dish / local cuisine
Dongxiang Autonomous County, in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州, Gansu
homesickness
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
to return to one's home town
(literary) to return to one's native place
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]
the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing
local dialect
(coll.) country folk / rustic / see also 鄉下人|乡下人
a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire
Tongxiang, a county-level city in Jiaxing City 嘉興市|嘉兴市, Zhejiang
foreign lands and places (idiom); living as expatriate
homesickness
to go from village to village (like an itinerant artist)
another part of the country / some other place
patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu
person from the same county
sleep / the land of Nod / dreamland
(literary) hometown; native place
Neixiang, a county in Nanyang City 南陽市|南阳市, Henan
Pingxiang, a county in Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市, Hebei
stranger
Xinxiang, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省
PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD)
homesick
to wander far from home
Liangxiang town in Beijing municipality
Xixiang, a county in Hanzhong City 漢中市|汉中市, Shaanxi
remote village
(lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
Anxiang, a county in Changde City 常德市, Hunan
foreign land / faraway land
Feixiang, a district of Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市, Hebei
country manners; provincialism
to die in a foreign land (idiom)
home village / one's native place
Wuxiang, a county in Changzhi City 長治市|长治市, Shanxi
far from town / out-of-the-way place
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
native language / native dialect
Xiangcheng, a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan

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