家乡

Character by character

• 家jiā10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 傢house, home, residence; family
• 乡xiāng3 strokesHSK 3 traditional 鄉country; rural; village

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Example sentences

• 你回家乡去住多少天？

  Nǐ huí jiā xiāng qù zhù duō shao tiān

  How many days are you going to be visiting your hometown?

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 家乡. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 家jiāHSK 1

  home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

• 大家dà jiāHSK 2

  everyone; influential family; great expert

• 国家guó jiāHSK 1

  country; nation; state

• 回家huí jiāHSK 1

  to return home

• 家庭jiā tíngHSK 2

  family; household

• 家里jiā lǐHSK 1

  home

• 专家zhuān jiāHSK 3

  expert; specialist

• 家人jiā rénHSK 1

  family member; (old) servant

• 家伙jiā huoHSK 7

  household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon

• 人家rén jiāHSK 4

  household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be

• 在家zài jiāHSK 1

  to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家)

• 家长jiā zhǎngHSK 2

  head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child

• 家族jiā zúHSK 7

  family; clan

• 作家zuò jiāHSK 2

  author

• 科学家kē xué jiāHSK 2

  scientist

• 乡村xiāng cūnHSK 5

  rustic; village; countryside

• 家具jiā jùHSK 3

  furniture

• 全家quán jiāHSK 2

  whole family

• 家属jiā shǔHSK 3

  family member; (family) dependent

• 乡xiāngHSK 5

  country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)

• 家园jiā yuánHSK 6

  home; homeland

• 老家lǎo jiāHSK 4

  native place; place of origin; home state or region

• 独家dú jiāHSK 7

  exclusive

• 画家huà jiāHSK 2

  painter