"Hometown" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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家乡 jiā xiāng hometown / native place / CL:個|个[ge4]
乡梓 xiāng zǐ (literary) hometown / native place
老乡 lǎo xiāng fellow townsman / fellow villager / sb from the same hometown
侨乡 qiáo xiāng hometown of overseas Chinese
乡土 xiāng tǔ native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
祖籍 zǔ jí ancestral hometown / original domicile (and civil registration)
关山 guān shān fortresses and mountains (along the Great Wall) / one's hometown
故园 gù yuán one's hometown
衣锦还乡 yì jǐn huán xiāng to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom) / to return in glory
梓 zǐ Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items / (bound form) printing blocks
衣锦荣归 yī jǐn róng guī to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom) / to return in glory
家乡鸡 jiā xiāng jī hometown chicken (item on a menu)
曲阜 Qū fù Qufu, county-level city in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Ji3 ning2], Shandong / hometown of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
曲阜孔庙 Qū fù Kǒng miào temple to Confucius in his hometown Qufu
曲阜市 Qū fù Shì Qufu, county-level city in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Ji3 ning2], Shandong / hometown of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
无颜见江东父老 wú yán jiàn Jiāng dōng fù lǎo (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
莼羹鲈脍 chún gēng - lú kuài (idiom) the dishes from one's hometown / (idiom) homesickness
衣锦还乡 yī jǐn huán xiāng lit. to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom) / fig. to return home after making good / Taiwan pr. [yi4 jin3 huan2 xiang1]
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