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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
hometown / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
Dongxiang ethnic group
fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
HSK 6
rustic / village / countryside
HSK 5
city and countryside
HSK 6
person from the same county
countryside / rural area / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
country music (country & western music genre)
to go to the countryside
HSK 7-9
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
a remote and desolate place
one's home town or village
foreign land / a place far from home
a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire
(lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
sleep / the land of Nod / dreamland
native language / native dialect
foreign land / away from one's native place
the land of dreams / slumberland
stranger
Anxiang, a county in Changde City 常德市, Hunan
to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers) / forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals
PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD)
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
Xinxiang, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省
country folk / rustic / rural folk
Dongxiang, a district of Fuzhou City 撫州市|抚州市, Jiangxi
patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu
villager / (Tw) (Internet slang) person who likes to follow online discussions and add their opinions
person from the same province
a stranger in a strange land (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维)
(literary) hypocrite / two-faced person
another part of the country / some other place
village doctor (Chinese health care system)
Jinxiang, a county in Jining City 濟寧市|济宁市, Shandong
to wander far from home
country manners; provincialism
homesickness / nostalgia
to be homesick
homesick
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)
homesickness
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
to go from village to village (like an itinerant artist)
foreign lands and places (idiom); living as expatriate
(derog.) country bumpkin; hick
in the country / rural / pastoral
local accent / accent of one's native place
Pingxiang, prefecture-level city in Jiangxi Province 江西省
fellow villager
Ningxiang, a county-level city in Changsha City 長沙市|长沙市, Hunan
hometown of overseas Chinese
Pingxiang, a county in Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市, Hebei
Wuxiang, a county in Changzhi City 長治市|长治市, Shanxi
(HK) rural area on the outskirts of a town or city; rural-urban fringe
townships and towns (collective term for the two principal township-level administrative divisions) / small towns (general sense)
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
Xinxiang, a county in Xinxiang City 新鄉市|新乡市, Henan
Xiangxiang, a county-level city in Xiangtan City 湘潭市, Hunan
Liangxiang town in Beijing municipality
far from town / out-of-the-way place
foreign land / faraway land
(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
person from the same village, town, or province
home village / one's native place
Xixiang, a county in Hanzhong City 漢中市|汉中市, Shaanxi
fairyland / honorific: your homeland
to return to one's home town
(literary) hometown; native place
Baixiang, a county in Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市, Hebei
one's native place / place of ancestry / registered birthplace
Tongxiang, a county-level city in Jiaxing City 嘉興市|嘉兴市, Zhejiang
to die in a foreign land (idiom)
patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu / same as 江南水鄉|江南水乡
Feixiang, a district of Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市, Hebei
(literary) to return to one's native place
Xiangning, a county in Linfen City 臨汾市|临汾市, Shanxi
cottage cheese
Xixiangtang, a district of Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市, Guangxi
Neixiang, a county in Nanyang City 南陽市|南阳市, Henan
a relative / a family member

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