Read Edit View history 鄉 xiāng HSK5 hometown Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Pictograph of two people facing each other, kneeling down to share a meal. Based on the original meaning "feast" or "offer food", now written as 饗. The meaning later shifted to "hometown". Pinyin Separate values with commas xiāng × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 乡 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Depicts a kneeling person facing right. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 鄉 Simp strokes 鄉 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 鄉 Simp strokes 鄉 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Depicts a kneeling person facing left. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 鄉 Simp strokes 鄉 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 鄉 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 223, 796 ], [ 248, 773 ], [ 256, 747 ], [ 226, 665 ], [ 147, 487 ], [ 145, 464 ], [ 192, 466 ], [ 236, 477 ], [ 258, 493 ] ], [ [ 302, 594 ], [ 323, 560 ], [ 255, 441 ], [ 175, 319 ], [ 173, 288 ], [ 214, 291 ], [ 288, 321 ], [ 293, 331 ] ], [ [ 304, 411 ], [ 330, 383 ], [ 321, 310 ], [ 290, 212 ], [ 264, 156 ], [ 205, 70 ], [ 140, 5 ], [ 130, 2 ], [ 129, -5 ] ], [ [ 441, 827 ], [ 512, 785 ], [ 532, 757 ] ], [ [ 446, 613 ], [ 454, 608 ], [ 508, 632 ], [ 551, 641 ], [ 583, 613 ], [ 558, 423 ], [ 551, 402 ], [ 538, 403 ] ], [ [ 444, 495 ], [ 470, 510 ], [ 515, 509 ] ], [ [ 445, 384 ], [ 453, 386 ], [ 456, 395 ], [ 515, 410 ], [ 529, 419 ] ], [ [ 378, 624 ], [ 411, 601 ], [ 419, 579 ], [ 427, 441 ], [ 417, 239 ], [ 421, 217 ], [ 463, 226 ], 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