乡 xiāng — countryside; village; rural area
乡
Traditional:
鄉
xiāng xiang1
Basic definition
Detailed explanation
- noun (会意。据甲骨文,像二人对食形。“‘鄉'和‘饗'原本是一字…整个字像两个人相向对坐,共食一簋的情状。本义是用酒食款待别人,是“饗”的古字)
- noun township
- noun 唐、宋至今指县以下的行政区划。所辖规模历代不同。又如:乡荐(唐宋时由地方官推荐应进士考试的人);乡科(乡试);乡贡(由州县选拔出应科举的士子)
- noun countryside;rural area;country e.g 乡里迓鼓 · 乡曲之誉 · 乡先生 · 乡瓜子
- noun native place;home village e.g 乡心 · 乡味 · 乡信
- noun place e.g 他乡外乡异乡侨乡 帝乡
- noun an unreal delightful country e.g 梦乡醉乡
- noun villager e.g 老乡同乡 乡中
- noun face to
- noun 姓
Related words
- 家乡 hometown; native place
- 乡镇 townships; towns and townships (administrative)
- 城乡 urban and rural; city and countryside
- 乡村 village; countryside
- 下乡 to go to the countryside
- 故乡 home; homeland; native place; hometown
- 乡亲 fellow countryman (from the same village)/local people/villager/the folks back h
- 乡下 in the countryside; rural area
- 乡里 hometown; the village neighborhood
- 乡长 township head
- 老乡 fellow townsman; villager
- 乡下人 country folk
- 同乡 person from the same hometown or home region
- 返乡 to return to one's hometown
- 乡间 in the countryside; in a village
- 乡土 native soil/one's native land/one's hometown/local (to an area)
- 水乡 water town; region of rivers and lakes
- 山乡 mountain village
- 他乡 a foreign place; a distant land
- 乡情 nostalgia for one's hometown; hometown feeling