home town, village, native place, district
郷 centers on a person's place of origin or belonging: a home town, native village, or the district one comes from.
郷 combines a phonetic element related to 卿 with the village radical ⻏, suggesting a place or community. The exact historical development of the left side is uncertain.
The right side is the village radical ⻏, and the left side looks like a person returning to their roots. Picture someone walking back to their home village, the place they belong.
For キョウ, imagine a person returning to their home town and being greeted with a loud 'kyou!' (like 'cue!') of recognition: kyou -> キョウ.
hometown; birthplace; native place; one's old home
hometown; birthplace; native place; one's old home
countryside; country
hometown
native place; birth-place; one's old home
one's hometown
homecoming; return to one's home
ideal land; earthly paradise; Utopia; Arcadia
(being from the) same town (province, birthplace, etc.)
hot-spring village; onsen village
one's birthplace
nostalgia; homesickness
earthly paradise; Shangri-la
hometown; birthplace
beautiful riverside location; lakeside district; canal district
homesickness; nostalgia
country samurai
foreign country; foreign land; strange land; far-off land
being in one's hometown
place far from home; strange land; foreign country