乡 (鄉) xiāng

1. xiāng noun village; township
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Geography
   Notes: (Unihan '鄉'; XHZD '乡' 1)
2. xiāng noun Kangxi radical 52
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Village, alterate form for 幺 (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
3. xiāng noun formerly
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   
4. xiāng noun country; countryside; rural area
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Unihan '鄉'; XHZD '乡' 1)
5. xiāng adjective native place; birthplace
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Unihan '鄉'; XHZD '乡' 2)

Contained in

• 乡下习气(鄉下習氣) country manners; provincialism
• 离开故乡(離開故鄉) to leave one's homeland
• 威加海内兮归故乡(威加海內兮歸故鄉) With might that extends to the land within the seas, I return to my hometown
• 乡戚(鄉戚) a relative; a family member
• 乡音(鄉音) local accent; accent of one's native place
• 乡郊(鄉郊) rural
• 乡户(鄉戶) village population ; common people from one's hometown ; the number of people born every year in a village
• 串乡(串鄉) to go from village to village (like an itinerant artist)
• 侨乡(僑鄉) hometown of overseas Chinese
• 乡亲(乡親) a person from the same village ; fellow countryman (from the same village); local people; villager; the folks back home
• 背井离乡(背井離鄉) to leave one's native place, especially against one's will
• 乡镇(鄉鎮) village; township
• 弃官归乡(棄官歸鄉) to resign from an official post and return to the countryside
• 乡村医生(鄉村醫生) village doctor (Chinese health care system)

Also contained in

五股乡 、 龙潭乡 、 乡宁 、 仁爱乡 、 武乡县 、 芳苑乡 、 内门乡 、 安定乡 、 乡城县 、 亚曼牙乡 、 石碇乡 、 西港乡 、 柳营乡 、 水上乡 、 名间乡 、 仑背乡 、 宝山乡 、 新社乡 、 家乡鸡 、 竹崎乡 、 西湖乡 、 东乡县 、 峨眉乡 、 线西乡 、 新市乡 、 达仁乡 、 乡城 、 萍乡市 、 枋山乡 、 尖石乡 、 褒忠乡 、 内乡县 、 鹿野乡 、 西屿乡 、 莒光乡 、 大湖乡 、 大武乡

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• 卷三十九 志第十九: 地理二 Volume 39 Treatises 19: Geography 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 42
• 匡君小匡第二十 Chapter 20: Kuang Jun Xiao Kuang Guanzi 管子 — count: 33
• 卷二十八上 地理志 Volume 28a: Treatise on Geography 1 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 32
• 齊語 Discourses of Qi Guoyu 國語 — count: 30
• 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 29
• 卷四十五 志第二十一 地理六 Volume 45 Treatises 21: Geography 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 29
• 卷二百九十三 列傳第一百八十一 忠義五 Volume 293 Biographies 181: Loyal Officials 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 24
• 卷五十一　　　　志第四十一　　食貨一 Volume 51 Treatises 47: Finance and Economics 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 22
• 卷一百七十八 志第一百三十一 食貨上六 Volume 178 Treatises 131: Finance and Economics 1f History of Song 宋史 — count: 22
• 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 21

Collocations

• 南乡 (南鄉) 南鄉北鄉 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 — count: 19
• 乡党 (鄉黨) 以與爾鄰里鄉黨乎 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 6. 《雍也》 Yong Ye — count: 11
• 乡饮酒 (鄉飲酒) 鄉飲酒之禮 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《經解》 The Different Teachings of the Different Kings — count: 10
• 乡大夫 (鄉大夫) 遂以摯見於鄉大夫 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《冠義》 The Meaning of the Ceremony of Capping — count: 7
• 乡原 (鄉原) 鄉原 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 17. 《陽貨》 Yang Huo — count: 6
• 六乡 (六鄉) 帥六鄉之眾庶 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 6
• 北乡 (北鄉) 南鄉北鄉 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 — count: 5
• 乡乐 (鄉樂) 鄉樂唯欲 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 鄉飲酒禮 第四 4. Rites of the district symposium — count: 4
• 乡射 (鄉射) 合諸鄉射 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《鄉飲酒義》 The Meaning of the Drinking Festivity in the Districts — count: 4
• 乡尸 (鄉屍) 乡尸 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 士虞禮 第十四 14. Post burial rites for a common officer — count: 4