鄉

country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)

乡 = 幺 + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a tractor.

乡 = 幺 + 丿 : Marie Curie's tractor got stuck in a pile of bananas in front of the anglepod, with the wheels spinning helplessly. Her last hope is that she'll be able to free the tractor by pushing aces under the wheels, so that she can bring the tractor back to her hometown.

鄉 character breakdown

鄉
- 郎
  - 良
    - 丶
    - 艮
      - 日
        
        一
        
        囗
      - 长
        
        丆
        
        一
        
        丿
        
        丿
        
        乛
  - 阝
- 乡
  - 丿
  - 幺
    - 厶

郎

láng = l + ang2

surname Lang

郎 = 良 + 阝 : Mnemonic symbol: a franc (法郎).

The imperator (阝) is very satisfied with Sir Lancelot's (l) deeds. In the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) he gives him a thank you card (良) and a franc (郎) as a bonus. His minister (郎), 二郎 (郎), is very jealous though, so he snatches the franc away as Sir Lancelot wants to fetch it.

郎

láng = l + ang2

(arch.) minister / official / noun prefix denoting function or status / a youth

乡

鄉

xia̅ng = xi + ang1

country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)

乡 = 幺 + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a tractor.

Characters with 鄉 as component

向

曏

xiàng = xi + ang4

variant of 向[xiang4] / direction / orientation / to face / to turn toward / to / towards / shortly before / formerly

向 = 丿 + 冋 : Mnemonic symbol: there's a genus of mahogany trees which produce "向天果" or "sky fruit" because, well, they directly face the sky.

向 = 丿 + 冋 : In anglepod's bathroom, Marie Curie is being held up at the border control post because she tried to smuggle a sky fruit in a banana.

向

嚮

xiàng = xi + ang4

to tend toward / to guide / variant of 向[xiang4]

向 = 丿 + 冋 : In anglepod's bathroom, Marie Curie is being held up at the border control post because she tried to smuggle a sky fruit in a banana.

向 = 丿 + 冋 : Mnemonic symbol: there's a genus of mahogany trees which produce "向天果" or "sky fruit" because, well, they directly face the sky.

响

響

xiǎng = xi + ang3

echo / sound / noise / to make a sound / to sound / to ring / loud / classifier for noises

响 = 口 + 向 : Inside of the anglepod (ang3), Marie Curie (xi) makes loud noises (响) clashing together a mandarin (口) and a sky fruit (向).

飨

饗

xiǎng = xi + ang3

(literary) to offer food and drinks / to entertain

芗

薌

xia̅ng = xi + ang1

aromatic herb used for seasoning / variant of 香[xiang1]

膷

xia̅ng = xi + ang1

hashed beef / soup

蚃

蠁

xiàng = xi + ang4

larvae

Words with 鄉

东

東

do̅ng

鄉

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