鄉

See also: 鄕, 乡, and 郷

Translingual

Traditional	[[鄕/鄉]]
Simplified	乡
Japanese	郷
Korean	鄕

Han character

鄉 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女竹戈戈中 (VHIIL), four-corner 2772₇, composition ⿰乡郎)

Derived characters

• 響

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1275, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39498
• Dae Jaweon: page 1775, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3786, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9109

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Chinese

trad.		鄉/鄕
simp.		乡
alternative forms		鄊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鄉
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (鄉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
曏	*qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
鄉	*qʰaŋ
薌	*qʰaŋ
膷	*qʰaŋ
響	*qʰaŋʔ
饗	*qʰaŋʔ
蠁	*qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
嚮	*qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
卿	*kʰraŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 𠨍 (“two people facing each other”) + 皀 (“a round- mouthed food vessel”) – to feast; the original script of 饗 (OC *qʰaŋʔ). The sense "village" was a result of phonetic borrowing.

The right half is unrelated to 郎 as 良 was the result of corruption of 皀.

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鄉

1. village
2. countryside
3. one's native place
4. place
5. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiàng (xiang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hoeng³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siàng
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang⁴
    • Yale: syàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shianq
    • Palladius: сян (sjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hoeng³
    • Yale: heung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoeng³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hœːŋ³³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰaŋ-s/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鄉
Reading #	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiàng
Middle Chinese	‹ xjangH ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰaŋ-s/
English	to face
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鄉

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Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎng (xiang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎng
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang³
    • Yale: syǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheang
    • Palladius: сян (sjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰaŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鄉
Reading #	2/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiǎng
Middle Chinese	‹ xjangX ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰaŋʔ/
English	feast
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鄉

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Japanese

Kanji

鄉

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): きょう (kyō), ごう (gō)
• Kun: さと (sato), ふるさと (furusato), さきに (sakini)
• kyūjitai: 鄕
• shinjitai: 郷

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Korean

Hanja

鄉 • (hyang) (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune–Reischauer hyang, Yale hyang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 鄉 (hương)

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