乡
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country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 幺 itself
- Structure
- Single component 独体
- Traditional
- 鄉
- Common rank
- #688
- Unicode
- U+4E61
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 乡 is formed
Components 幺
How to remember it
countryside · Heisig RSH #1387
cocoon
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 乡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 东乡族自治县 | Dongxiang Autonomous County, in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4… | |
| 上山下乡 | to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers); forced agricultural experience for city… | |
| 积石山保安族东乡族撒拉族自治县 | Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County, in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefectur… | |
| 江南水乡 | patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu | |
| 金乡县 | Jinxiang, a county in Jining City 濟寧市|济宁市[Ji3 ning2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 安乡县 | Anxiang, a county in Changde City 常德市[Chang2 de2 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 西乡县 | Xixiang, a county in Hanzhong City 漢中市|汉中市[Han4 zhong1 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 乡下人 | country folk; rustic; rural folk | |
| 平乡县 | Pingxiang, a county in Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市[Xing2 tai2 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 新乡县 | Xinxiang, a county in Xinxiang City 新鄉市|新乡市[Xin1 xiang1 Shi4], Henan | |
| 乡城县 | Xiangcheng, a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 Zi4… | |
| 新乡市 | Xinxiang, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3] | |
| 外乡人 | a stranger; out-of-towner | |
| 东乡区 | Dongxiang, a district of Fuzhou City 撫州市|抚州市[Fu3 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangxi | |
| 大同乡 | person from the same province | |
| 小同乡 | person from the same county | |
| 鱼米之乡 | (lit.) land of fish and rice; (fig.) fertile region; land of milk and honey | |
| 内乡县 | Neixiang, a county in Nanyang City 南陽市|南阳市[Nan2 yang2 Shi4], Henan | |
| 东乡族 | Dongxiang ethnic group | |
| 家乡话 | native language; native dialect |
Sound family
These characters use 乡 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乡 sound part | country, village; rural | |
| 飨 | banquet; to host a banquet | |
| 芗 | fragrant, aromatic; the smell of herbs |