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xiāng

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xiāng Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
xiāng | xiang1
English translation
country, village; rural

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About xiāng

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

xiāng

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

Two people   xiāng and  hunched over a meal  liáng

Etymology of xiāng

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

乡郎

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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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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