乡镇
xiāng zhèn
Pinyin

Definition

乡镇
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xiāng zhèn
  1. village
  2. township

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

下乡
xià xiāng
  1. 1 to go to the countryside
他乡
tā xiāng
  1. 1 foreign land
  2. 2 away from one's native place
城镇
chéng zhèn
  1. 1 town
  2. 2 cities and towns
家乡
jiā xiāng
  1. 1 hometown
  2. 2 native place
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
故乡
gù xiāng
  1. 1 home
  2. 2 homeland
  3. 3 native place
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
水乡
shuǐ xiāng
  1. 1 patchwork of waterways, esp. in Jiangsu
  2. 2 same as 江南水鄉|江南水乡[Jiāng nán shuǐ xiāng]
异乡
yì xiāng
  1. 1 foreign land
  2. 2 a place far from home
老乡
lǎo xiāng
  1. 1 fellow townsman
  2. 2 fellow villager
  3. 3 sb from the same hometown
返乡
fǎn xiāng
  1. 1 to return to one's home town
乡
xiāng
  1. 1 country or countryside
  2. 2 native place
  3. 3 home village or town
  4. 4 township (PRC administrative unit)
乡下
xiāng xia
  1. 1 countryside
  2. 2 rural area
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
乡村
xiāng cūn
  1. 1 rustic
  2. 2 village
  3. 3 countryside
乡里
xiāng lǐ
  1. 1 one's home town or village
镇
zhèn
  1. 1 to press down
  2. 2 to calm
  3. 3 to subdue
  4. 4 to suppress
  5. 5 to guard
  6. 6 garrison
  7. 7 small town
  8. 8 to cool or chill (food or drinks)
镇定
zhèn dìng
  1. 1 calm
  2. 2 unperturbed
  3. 3 cool
入乡随俗
rù xiāng suí sú
  1. 1 When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do
  2. 2 When in Rome, do as the Romans do
冰镇
bīng zhèn
  1. 1 iced
同乡
tóng xiāng
  1. 1 person from the same village, town, or province
吴镇宇
Wú Zhèn yǔ
  1. 1 Francis Ng Chun-Yu (1961-), Hong Kong actor
坐镇
zuò zhèn
  1. 1 (of a commanding officer) to keep watch
  2. 2 to oversee

Idioms (5)

他乡遇故知
tā xiāng yù gù zhī
  1. 1 meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)
入乡随俗
rù xiāng suí sú
  1. 1 When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do
  2. 2 When in Rome, do as the Romans do
异国他乡
yì guó tā xiāng
  1. 1 foreign lands and places (idiom); living as expatriate
背井离乡
bèi jǐng lí xiāng
  1. 1 to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
衣锦还乡
yì jǐn huán xiāng
  1. 1 to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); to return in glory

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