I don't know what it is to be homesick.
乡愁
homesickness
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Meaning and common use
homesickness
nostalgia
How 乡愁 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 乡愁 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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Words that keep company with 乡愁.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 乡愁.
Directly before
- 知道乡愁2
- 有些乡愁1
- 了乡愁1
Directly after
- 乡愁的2
- 乡愁了1
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
About 乡愁
What does 乡愁 mean in Chinese?
乡愁 (xiāngchóu) means homesickness.
How do you pronounce 乡愁?
乡愁 is pronounced xiāngchóu.
Is 乡愁 an HSK word?
乡愁 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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