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家乡

jiā xiāng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 家鄉 Measure word 个

家乡 (jiā xiāng) means "hometown". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 家乡 means

1. hometown
2. native place

The characters in 家乡

• 家jiāused in 家伙
• 乡xiāngcountry or countryside; native place; home village or town

Example sentences

• 台湾是我的家乡。
  Taiwan is my home.
• 我的家乡非常漂亮。
  My hometown is very pretty.
• 她被安葬在她的家乡。
  Tā bèi ānzàng zài tā de jiāxiāng.
  She was buried in her hometown.
• 你回家乡去住多少天？
  How many days are you going to be visiting your hometown?
• 我们第一次参观了他的家乡。
  We visited his home country for the first time.
• 在你们远离家乡之前请给父母一个拥抱。
  Zài nǐmen yuǎnlí jiāxiāng zhīqián qǐng gěi fùmǔ yī gè yōngbào.
  Give a hug to your parents before you get far away from your hometown.

Words starting with 家乡

• 家乡话jiā xiāng huànative language; native dialect
• 家乡菜jiā xiāng càiregional dish; local cuisine

Where 家乡 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Geography, Places & Social Position (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiā xiāng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.