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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

乡愁

xiāngchóu

homesickness

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

homesickness

02

nostalgia

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

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.

我不知道乡愁的滋味。wǒ bù zhī dào xiāng chóu de zī wèi。

I don't know what it is to be homesick.

竟有些乡愁了!jìng yǒu xiē xiāng chóu le!

No published English translation for this sentence.

你可知道乡愁的滋味?nǐ kě zhī dào xiāng chóu de zī wèi?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

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
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

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.

COMMON QUESTIONS

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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