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故乡

gù xiāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 故鄉 Measure word 个

故乡 (gù xiāng) means "hometown". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 故乡 means

1. home
2. homeland
3. native place

The characters in 故乡

• 故gùhappening; instance; reason
• 乡xiāngcountry or countryside; native place; home village or town

Example sentences

• 不由得想起了故乡。
  Bùyóude xiǎngqǐ le gùxiāng.
  I can never forget my hometown.
• 我突然很想念我的故乡。
  I suddenly feel nostalgic for my homeland.
• 他10年中第一次访问他的故乡。
  Tā 10 niánzhōng dìyīcì fǎngwèn tā de gùxiāng.
  He visited his hometown for the first time in ten years.
• 世界上有什么地方能比得上你的故乡好啊？
  Shìjiè shàng yǒu shénmedìfang néng bǐ de shàng nǐ de gùxiāng hǎo ā?
  What place on Earth coulde be better than the place your people came from?
• 世界上有什幺地方能比得上你的故乡好啊？
  What place on Earth could be better than the place your people came from?

Where 故乡 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gòu–gù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gù xiāng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.