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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
to go to the countryside
HSK 7-9
mountain area
fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
HSK 6
foreign land / a place far from home
to be homesick
person from the same hometown or home region
hometown of overseas Chinese
fairyland / honorific: your homeland
patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu / same as 江南水鄉|江南水乡
to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers) / forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals
ethnic township (formal village level subdivision of PRC county)
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
the land of dreams / slumberland
foreign land / away from one's native place
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]
(coll.) country folk / rustic / see also 鄉下人|乡下人
foreign lands and places (idiom); living as expatriate
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
homesick
to wander far from home
Liangxiang town in Beijing municipality
(lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
foreign land / faraway land
to die in a foreign land (idiom)
home village / one's native place
person from the same province
(proverb) to follow local customs / When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
(idiom) to retire from official service due to old age and return to one's hometown


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