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还乡

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huán xiāng

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Definitions

  1. 1. (literary) to return to one's native place

Words Containing 还乡

衣锦还乡
yì jǐn huán xiāng

to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); to return in glory

还乡女
huán xiāng nǚ

(Korean term) women who returned to Korea after being abducted during the Manchu invasions of Korea in the 17th century, only to be regarded as defiled and therefore ostracized, even by their own families

Child Words of 还乡

还
hái

still

还
huán

to pay back

乡
xiāng

country or countryside

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