鄉
xiāng HSK5

hometown

乡 (鄉) xiāng
township noun
a low-level administrative unit in the People's Republic of China

他在这个乡的政府办公室工作。

tā zài zhè gè xiāng de zhèng​fǔ bàn​gōng​shì gōng​zuò.

He works in the government office of this township.

native place verb
one's home village, town, or birthplace

离开多年，他终于踏上了回乡的路。

lí​kāi duō nián, tā zhōng​yú tà​shàng le huí xiāng de lù.

After being away for many years, he finally set foot on the road back to his hometown.

countryside noun
rural areas or country side as opposed to the city

他在乡里生活了二十年，对农村的一草一木都非常熟悉。

tā zài xiāng lǐ shēng​huó le èr​shí nián, duì nóng​cūn de yī cǎo yī mù dōu fēi​cháng shú​xī.

He has lived in the township for twenty years and is intimately familiar with every blade of grass and every tree in the countryside.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
922nd most common 186.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,362nd most common 53.6 per million appears in 21% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.20 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
55.4 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
乡
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+9109

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)