郷

Meaning

郷 centers on a person's place of origin or belonging: a home town, native village, or the district one comes from.

• 故郷ふるさと
  N3

  hometown; birthplace; native place; one's old home

• 故郷こきょう
  N3

  hometown; birthplace; native place; one's old home

• 郷きょう

  hometown

• 郷ごう

  countryside; country

• 郷土きょうど
  N1

  native place; birth-place; one's old home

• 本郷ほんごう

  one's hometown

• 帰郷ききょう

  homecoming; return to one's home

• 理想郷りそうきょう

  ideal land; earthly paradise; Utopia; Arcadia

• 同郷どうきょう
  N1

  (being from the) same town (province, birthplace, etc.)

• 温泉郷おんせんきょう

  hot-spring village; onsen village

• 生まれ故郷うまれこきょう

  one's birthplace

• 郷愁きょうしゅう
  N1

  nostalgia; homesickness

• 桃源郷とうげんきょう

  earthly paradise; Shangri-la

• 郷里きょうり
  N1

  hometown; birthplace

• 水郷すいごう

  beautiful riverside location; lakeside district; canal district

• 望郷ぼうきょう

  homesickness; nostalgia

• 郷士ごうし

  country samurai

• 異郷いきょう

  foreign country; foreign land; strange land; far-off land

• 在郷ざいごう

  being in one's hometown

• 郷土色きょうどしょく

  local color; local colour

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