Native place in Chinese
native place · HSK 4
家乡
- 家 home
- 乡 countryside
Counted with 个: 一个家乡
我的家乡在南方的一个小城。 My hometown is a small town in the south.
Other ways to say native place
More words with 家 or 乡
How do you say native place in Chinese?
Native place in Chinese is 家乡 (jiā xiāng). You can also say 老家 (lǎo jiā), 故乡 (gù xiāng), 乡 (xiāng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.