Kanji N1

郷: home town, village, native place

郷 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning home town, village, native place, written with 11 strokes. It is read キョウ, ゴウ (on) and さと (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 郷里 (きょうり, hometown) and 郷愁 (きょうしゅう, nostalgia).

郷

Meanings

  • home town
  • village
  • native place
  • district
Strokes11
JLPT levelN1
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#1077 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • キョウ
  • ゴウ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • さと

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 11. Start at the dot.

Common words with 郷

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 郷里きょうり

    hometown; birthplace

    JLPT N1
  • 郷愁きょうしゅう

    nostalgia; homesickness

    JLPT N1
  • 故郷こきょう

    hometown; birthplace; native place

    JLPT N3
  • 郷土きょうど

    native place; birth-place; one's old home

  • 同郷どうきょう

    (being from the) same town (province, birthplace, etc.)

  • 望郷ぼうきょう

    homesickness; nostalgia

  • 帰郷ききょう

    homecoming; return to one's home

  • 異郷いきょう

    foreign country; foreign land; strange land

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.