Kanji1 / 11
郷 kanji
home town, village, native place, district
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
キョウゴウ
Kun readings
さと
Words with 郷
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —郷友friends from the same hometown
- —寒郷poor isolated village; one's hometown
- —原郷urheimat; original homeland of a people or of a language
- —郷夢homesickness; dreaming of one's hometown
- —郷校village school (esp. in Edo-era Japan, and ancient Korea and China)
- —愛郷心love of one's hometown
- —桃源郷earthly paradise; Shangri-la
- —理想郷ideal land; earthly paradise; Utopia; Arcadia
- —懐郷病homesickness
- —温泉郷hot-spring village; onsen village
- —郷土史local history
- —郷土色local color; local colour
- —郷土愛love for one's hometown
- —同郷人person from the same province, town, village, etc.
- —郷友会social organisation for people originating from the same town, village, or island who live in an urban center far from home (predominantly used by people from Okinawa)
- —郷土食local cuisine; regional cuisine
- —異郷人foreigner; expatriate
- —黄金郷El Dorado; land of gold; city of gold
- —郷土小説local story
- —郷土料理regional cuisine; local cuisine