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异乡

yì xiāng

2-character word Traditional 異鄉

What 异乡 means

1. foreign land
2. a place far from home

The characters in 异乡

• 异yìdifferent; other; hetero-
• 乡xiāngcountry or countryside; native place; home village or town

Example sentences

• 在异乡生活，偶尔收到朋友的关怀让人倍感温暖。
  As a stranger in a strange land, the sporadic solicitude from friends can be especially heart-warming.

Words starting with 异乡

• 异乡人yì xiāng rénstranger

Words containing 异乡

• 客死异乡kè sǐ yì xiāngto die in a foreign land (idiom)
• 独在异乡为异客dú zài yì xiāng wéi yì kèa stranger in a strange land (from a poem by Wang Wei 王维

Sounds the same

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

• 异香rare perfume