Meaning & readings
home town, village, native place, district
On’yomi キョウ、ゴウ
Kun’yomi さと
Nanori くに
Origin
The character 郷 combines a sound hint on the left with a geographical classifier on the right. The left component 卿 suggests the pronunciation, while the right part is a radical that indicates this character relates to places or districts. Together, the combination creates a character meaning a hometown or village, marking it as a place-word with a specific sound value. The shape evolved to represent the idea of a local region or native area.
Components
- 卿
- ⻏
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 11
- Kangxi radical
- 163
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #1077 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+090F7