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家乡 jiāxiāng

家乡 jiāxiāng Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 4 English Translations of the word 家乡 jiāxiāng .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jiāxiāng | jia1 xiang1
English translation
hometown
native place
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Traditional form

家鄉

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí
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Etymology of 家乡 jiāxiāng

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jiā

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. gài represents the meaning and shǐ represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

shǐ

Semantic compound

gài

Positional decomposition

宀豕

Number of Strokes

10
xiāng

Explanation

Simplified form of xiāng . Pictograph of two people facing each other, kneeling down to share a meal. Based on the original meaning "feast" or "offer food", now written as xiǎng . The meaning later shifted to "hometown". The traditional component was removed for

Positional decomposition

yāo

Number of Strokes

3

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Example sentences using 家乡 jiāxiāng

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家乡 jiāxiāng de dòng 房屋 fáng wū 保留 bǎoliú zhāo .

He is keeping on the house in his hometown.

de 家乡 jiāxiāng shì 一九四九年 chūn 解放 jiěfàng de .

My home town was liberated in the spring of

冬天 dōng tiān shí ,家乡 jiāxiāng de 气温 qì wēn Xiàng lái dōu zài 零度 líng dù 以下 yǐ xià .

In my hometown temperatures in winter never rise above zero.

家乡 jiāxiāng 哥伦比亚 Gē lún bǐ yà chéng suàn yuǎn .甚至 shènzhì Huán Guò 一趟芝加哥 Zhī jiā gē .

Columbia City was not so very far away, even once she was in Chicago.

常常 cháng cháng mèng dào 家乡 jiāxiāng .

He often dreams about home.

家乡 jiāxiāng Decomposition

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家乡 jiāxiāng Compounds

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