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hometown / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
home / homeland / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *鄉* | 鄉* | *鄉
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
countryside / rural area / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to go to the countryside
HSK 7-9
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
Shenkeng township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Taiwu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
Guoxing or Kuohsing Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
Linnei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Xingang or Hsinkang Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Chiatung township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
Fangliao township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
(idiom) to retire from official service due to old age and return to one's hometown
Ji'an or Chi'an township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
Changbin or Changpin township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县, southeast Taiwan
Hsinyuan township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
to return to one's home town
village chief / mayor (of village or township)
mountain area
village / township
Jiaoxi or Chiaohsi Township in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan
Pingxi or Pinghsi township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Xixiang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
foreign land / away from one's native place
foreign land / a place far from home
patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu / same as 江南水鄉|江南水乡
Puxin or Puhsin Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
Yuchi or Yuchih Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
Huatan Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
in the country / rural / pastoral
homesickness / nostalgia
Ershui or Erhshui Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
Lunbei or Lunpei township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Beinan or Peinan township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县, southeast Taiwan
Ruisui or Juisui township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
Luye or Luyeh township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县, southeast Taiwan
villager / fellow villager
Wanluan township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
Tianwei or Tienwei Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
(derog.) villager / hick / bumpkin
one's home town or village
home village / one's native place
Wuxiang county in Changzhi 長治|长治, Shanxi
Baozhong or Paochung township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
country folk / rustic / rural folk
Xincheng or Hsincheng township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
Wuxiang county in Changzhi 長治|长治, Shanxi
Manchou township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
stranger
Lucao or Lutsao Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
Anxiang county in Changde 常德, Hunan
a stranger / out-of-towner
local accent / accent of one's native place
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
a remote and desolate place
a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire
fairyland / honorific: your homeland
person from the same village, town, or province
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]
(literary) to return to one's native place
country music (country & western music genre)
meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)
(lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
Dongxiang or East village (place name) / Donxiang (ethnic group) / Dongxiang County in Fuzhou 撫州|抚州, Jiangxi
Neixiang county in Nanyang 南陽|南阳, Henan
Xiangxiang, county-level city in Xiangtan 湘潭, Hunan
Xiangning county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
Meishan Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, southwest Taiwan
Linkou township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Jinshan or Chinshan township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Sanzhi or Sanchih township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Tongxiang, county-level city in Jiaxing 嘉興|嘉兴, Zhejiang
to be homesick
Wulai township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
remote village
homesick
Pingxiang county in Xingtai 邢台, Hebei
Xixiang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
Beipu or Peipu Township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
Xiangning county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
Linpien township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
Pingxiang county in Xingtai 邢台, Hebei
the land of dreams / slumberland
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
Neixiang county in Nanyang 南陽|南阳, Henan
Jinxiang County in Jining 濟寧|济宁, Shandong
Pitou Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
local dialect
Xiangxiang, county-level city in Xiangtan 湘潭, Hunan
the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing
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)

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