Chinese Vocabulary
同乡
fellow villager / hometown countryman
tóngxiāng
Usage
Someone from your hometown or home region — a powerful relational category in old Chinese society. When 同乡 went down to Nanyang together and one died, the other 同乡 would often hide it from the family back home.
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同乡 appears in 1 podcast episode at natural native speed, with full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.