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鄉

鄉

See also: 鄕, 乡, and 郷

Translingual

Simplified

 乡

Traditional

 鄕/鄉

Japanese

 郷

Korean

 鄕

Han character

鄉 (radical 163 邑+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女竹戈戈中 (VHIIL), four-corner 27727, composition ⿰乡郎)

  1. country
  2. rural
  3. village

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1275, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39498
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1775, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3786, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+9109

Chinese

trad. 鄉
simp. 乡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鄉
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (鄉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
曏 *qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
鄉 *qʰaŋ
薌 *qʰaŋ
膷 *qʰaŋ
響 *qʰaŋʔ
饗 *qʰaŋʔ
蠁 *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
嚮 *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
卿 *kʰraŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鄉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /xiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /xĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鄉 鄉 鄉
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiāng xiǎng xiàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjang › ‹ xjangX › ‹ xjangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋ/ /*qʰaŋʔ/ /*qʰaŋ-s/
English village; district feast to face

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鄉
Reading # 1/1
No. 13596
Phonetic
component		 鄉
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 香
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋ/
Notes 甲金文象兩人對食，爲饗初文

Definitions

鄉

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

鄉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

鄉 • ‎(hyang) (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang, Yale hyang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鄉 (hương, thương)

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