country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
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How to pronounce 乡

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= xi initial

Xi is for Xi Shi (西施), one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago
+ ang1 final

In front of the anglepod.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

乡 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
yāo = y + ao1
youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout
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丿
piě = pi + e3
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
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Characters with 乡 as component

country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
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xiāng = xi + ang1
Japanese variant of 鄉|乡
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aromatic herb used for seasoning / variant of 香[xiang1]
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Words with 乡

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rustic / village / countryside
hometown / native place / CL:個|个[ge4]
countryside / rural area / CL:個|个[ge4]

Sentences with 乡

乡 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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xiāng

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

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