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xiāng

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xiāng Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
xiāng | xiang1
English translation
country or countryside
native place
home village or town
township (PRC administrative unit)
country, village; rural

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About xiāng

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Number of strokes

3

Traditional form

xiāng

Contains the radical

yāo

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Etymology of xiāng

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Positional decomposition

yāo

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

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Example sentences using xiāng

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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.

这年 头儿 tóu r shuí gǎn 下乡 xià xiāng shōu !

" Who dares go down into the villages for rent these days?

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.

xiàn 以下 yǐ xià 基层 jī céng 行政 xíngzhèng 组织 zǔzhī wéi xiāng .

Below the county level administrative organization for the rural grass - roots level, where.

Words with xiāng

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
乡村 xiāng cūn rustic鄉村
家乡 jiāxiāng hometown家鄉
xiāng native place xiāng
乡下 xiāng xia countryside鄉下
城乡 chéng xiāng city and countryside城鄉
乡镇 xiāngzhèn village鄉鎮
故乡 gùxiāng home故鄉
乡巴佬 xiāng bā lǎo hick鄉巴佬
老乡 lǎo xiāng fellow townsman老鄉
乡下人 xiāng xià rén country folk鄉下人
乡间 xiāng jiān rural鄉間
下乡 xià xiāng to go to the countryside下鄉
乡亲 xiāng qīn local people鄉親
返乡 fǎn xiāng to return to one's home town返鄉
异乡 yì xiāng foreign land異鄉
梦乡 mèng xiāng slumberland夢鄉
同乡 tóng xiāng person from the same village, town, or province同鄉
乡土 xiāng tǔ native soil鄉土
乡里 xiāng lǐ one's home town or village鄉里
水乡 shuǐ xiāng patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu水鄉
背井离乡 bèi jǐng lí xiāng to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)背井離鄉
思乡 sī xiāng to be homesick思鄉
入乡随俗 rù xiāng suí sú When in Rome, do as the Romans do入鄉隨俗

xiāng Decomposition & Compounds

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xiāng Compounds

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