鄉 (hoeng1 | xiang1) : village; hometown; township

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鄉

hoeng1

xiang1

[1] village; countryside; rural area
[2] hometown; native place; home village
[3] township - a rural administrative unit under county

Stroke count: 12

Level: 1

Radical: (#163)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

鄉 / 乡

This word has been viewed 21574 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 22nd Nov 2013 14:18

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鄉土 hoeng1 tou2 xiang1 tu3 = one's native land

鄉下人 hoeng1 haa6*2 jan4 xiang1 xia4 ren2 = a country bumpkin

鄉下佬 hoeng1 haa6*2 lou2 = a country bumpkin; a villager; a hick 粵

鄉下音 hoeng1 haa6*2 jam1 xiang1 xia4 yin1 = rural village accent 粵

下鄉 haa6 hoeng1 xia4 xiang1 = to go to the countryside 國

家鄉 gaa1 hoeng1 jia1 xiang1 = home-town

故鄉 gu3 hoeng1 gu4 xiang1 = one's native land; hometown, native place

鄉親 hoeng1 can1 xiang1 qin1 = people from the same hometown

老鄉 lou5 hoeng1 lao3 xiang1 = fellow-townsman, fellow-villager

入鄉隨俗 jap6 hoeng1 ceoi4 zuk6 ru4 xiang1 sui2 su2 = When in Rome do as the Romans do
See all 213 compounds (CantoDict reports 216 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 1 example containing 鄉

一個人喺異鄉無根無蔃，咩都要靠自己，真唔容易粵
To be alone in a foreign place without the support from family or society, one has to be very independent; and that can be very trying.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 鄉
Unicode code for this character: U+9109 (off-site link)

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