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乡亲

xiāng qīn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 鄉親

乡亲 (xiāng qīn) means "fellow countryman (from the same village); local people; villager". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 乡亲 means

1. fellow countryman (from the same village)
2. local people
3. villager
4. the folks back home

The characters in 乡亲

• 乡xiāngcountry or countryside; native place; home village or town
• 亲qīnparent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative

Sounds the same

Read xiāng qīn, tone for tone, but written differently.

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