故乡 gùxiāng

HSK level

Traditional form

故鄉

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

故 gù

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. 攵 pū represents the meaning and 古 Gǔ represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

古 Gǔ

Semantic compound

攵 pū

Positional decomposition

⿰古攵

Number of Strokes

乡 xiāng

Explanation

Simplified form of 鄉 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 饗 xiǎng . The meaning later shifted to "hometown". The traditional component 皀 bī was removed for

Positional decomposition

幺 yāo

Number of Strokes

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我 wǒ 常常 cháng cháng 在 zài 梦 mèng 中 Zhōng 回 huí 到 dào 我 wǒ 的 de 故乡 gùxiāng .

I often return in dreams to my hometown.

我 wǒ 的 de 故乡 gùxiāng 伊利诺伊州 Yī lì nuò yī zhōu 一马平川 yī mǎ píng chuān 。

My home state of Illinois is flat as a pancake.

See the 3 Chinese characters that make up 故乡 gùxiāng and their own compounds.

故 gù

古 Gǔ

口 kǒu , 十 shí

攵 pū

乡 xiāng

See all 12 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 故乡 gùxiāng in their composition.

故 gù

做 zuò

乡 xiāng

雍 yōng

臃 yōng , 壅 yōng , 癕 yōng , 蕹 wèng , 饔 yōng , 噰, 擁 yōng , 澭, 甕 wèng

飨 xiǎng , 芗 xiāng

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