郷

See also 鄕, and 鄉

Translingual

Han character

郷 (radical 163 邑+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女竹日戈中 (VHAIL))

1. country
2. rural
3. village

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1273, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39498
• Dae Jaweon: page 1772, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3782, character 7
• Unihan data for U+90F7

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Japanese

Kanji

郷 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: きょう (kyō), ごう (gō)
• Kun: さと (sato)
• Nanori: くに (kuni), こう (kō), みさと (misato)

Compounds

郷里 (kyōri): one's old home 郷土 (kyōdo): one's birthplace 郷愁 (kyōshū): homesickness, nostalgia

故郷 (kokyō): hometown, birthplace 帰郷 (kikyō): homecoming

愛郷心 (aikyōshin): love of one's hometown 同郷人 (dōkyōjin): person from the same province

Noun

郷 (hiragana きょう, romaji kyō)

1. hometown

郷 (hiragana さと, romaji sato)

1. village

郷 (hiragana ごう, romaji gō)

1. country home, village, countryside

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Korean

Hanja

郷 (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang, Yale hyang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

郷 (pinyin xiāng (xiang1), Wade-Giles hsiang¹)