How many days will you be staying in your hometown?
Sentence #385101 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 家乡 is built
Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.
家jiāhome
宀roof · miánMeaning part
豕pig · shǐSound part
宀 hints at the meaning (roof); 豕 (shǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiā.
Memory aidA pig 豕 under a roof 宀: a home, a family.
乡xiāngcountry or countryside
乡 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
How to write 家乡
家 10 strokes · 乡 3 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 家乡 (jiāxiāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
家乡 (jiāxiāng) means “hometown” or “native place”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jiāxiāng: jiā with a 1st tone, then xiāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 家乡 is written 家鄉. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one hometown is 一个家乡 (yí ge jiāxiāng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiaxiang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 家乡 from the suggestions. Typing jiaxiang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
家乡 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
家jiā1st tone, high and level
