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乡试

xiāng shì

2-character word Traditional 鄉試

What 乡试 means

1. the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing

The characters in 乡试

• 乡xiāngcountry or countryside; native place; home village or town
• 试shìto test; to try; experiment

Sounds the same

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

• 相视to look at each other

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiāng shì correctly.
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