鄉 (xiāng)

countryside; village; hometown

How 鄉 is written

Strokes
11
Radical
丿 — bend
Traditional
鄉
Simplified
乡

Components

  • 丿 bend
  • 丨 line
  • 彐 pig snout
  • 乚 second
  • 丶 dot
  • 阝 town

Common words using 鄉

他鄉 tāxiāng
foreign land; away from one's native place
家鄉 jiāxiāng
hometown; native place; CL:個|个[ge4]
故鄉 gùxiāng
home; homeland; native place
異鄉 yìxiāng
foreign land; a place far from home
老鄉 lǎoxiāng
fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
返鄉 fǎnxiāng
to return to one's home town
鄉下 xiāngxià
country (as opposed to town or city); rural; CL:個|个[ge4]
鄉村 xiāngcūn
rustic; village; countryside
鄉里 xiānglǐ
one's home town or village
下鄉 xiàxiāng
to go to the countryside
入鄉隨俗 rùxiāngsuísú
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do; When in Rome, do as the Romans do
同鄉 tóngxiāng
person from the same village, town, or province

鄉 in a sentence

我喜歡鄉下的空氣。

Wǒ xǐhuān xiāngxià de kōngqì.

“I like the air in the countryside.”

How common is 鄉?

鄉 is the 920th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 87.8% of all running text.

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