家鄉

hometown / native place / CL:個|个[ge4]

Characters and words in 家鄉

jia̅ = ji + a1

see 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5]

jia̅ = ji + a1

home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]

家 = 宀 + 豕 : Mnemonic symbol: a framed "home sweet home" picture.

The swine (豕) graduated and wearing a graduation cap (宀), it came home to the ashram. In front of it (a1), Joan of Arc (ji) welcomes the swine and hugs it. To welcome her dear swine, she put a gigantic home sweet home (家) picture in front of the ashram.

乡

鄉

xia̅ng = xi + ang1

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

乡 = 幺 + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a tractor.

乡 = 幺 + 丿 : Marie Curie's tractor got stuck in a pile of bananas in front of the anglepod, with the wheels spinning helplessly. Her last hope is that she'll be able to free the tractor by pushing aces under the wheels, so that she can bring the tractor back to her hometown.