故乡

Character by character

• 故gù9 strokesHSK 2ancient, old; reason, because
• 乡xiāng3 strokesHSK 3 traditional 鄉country; rural; village

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Example sentences

• 不由得想起了故乡。

  Bù yóu de xiǎng qǐ le gù xiāng

  I can never forget my hometown.

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Words with the same characters

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

• 故事gù shìHSK 2

  old practice

• 事故shì gùHSK 3

  accident

• 故意gù yìHSK 2

  deliberately; on purpose

• 乡村xiāng cūnHSK 5

  rustic; village; countryside

• 家乡jiā xiāngHSK 3

  hometown; native place

• 故障gù zhàngHSK 6

  malfunction; breakdown; defect; shortcoming; fault; failure; impediment; error; bug (in software)

• 乡xiāngHSK 5

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

• 故gùHSK 7

  happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead

• 缘故yuán gùHSK 6

  reason; cause

• 乡下xiāng xiaHSK 7

  countryside; rural area

• 老乡lǎo xiāngHSK 6

  fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown

• 无故wú gùHSK 7

  without cause or reason

• 变故biàn gù

  an unforeseen event; accident; misfortune

• 乡镇xiāng zhèn

  village; township

• 乡亲xiāng qīnHSK 7

  fellow countryman (from the same village); local people; villager; the folks back home

• 世故shì guHSK 7

  sophisticated; worldly-wise

• 城乡chéng xiāngHSK 6

  city and countryside

• 下乡xià xiāngHSK 7

  to go to the countryside