鄉

Derived characters

 * 膷 鱜 䦳 曏 薌 㗽 蠁 響 饗 嚮 𣜼 𤩬 𧬰 𨬽 𬳧

Glyph origin
– to feast; the original script of. The sense "village" was a result of phonetic borrowing or semantic shifting.

In early writing, the character was virtually indistinguishable from. Semantically, and, likely cognates too, were both represented by the event depicted in the ideogram – , which was central to the community life.

The right half is unrelated to, as in 鄉 was derived from  during the formation of the clerical script.

Definitions

 * 1) township
 * 2) countryside; country; rural area
 * 3) one's native place
 * 4) place
 * 5) state; situation
 * 1) place
 * 2) state; situation
 * 1) state; situation

Kanji

 * 1) hometown

Readings

 * kyūjitai:
 * shinjitai:
 * shinjitai:

Hanja

 * 1) alternative form of 鄕