| xiāng | country/village |
| 乡 | country or countryside native place home village or town |
| 乡下 | country (as opposed to town or city) rural CL:個|个 |
| 乡下习气 | country mannerism provincialism |
| 乡下人 | country folk rustic rural folk |
| 乡下佬 | yokelry; hayshaker; jibaro; joskin; tyke; hobnail; jake; yokel; tike; gull; clod; clodhopper; hayseed; loon |
| 乡井 | native place; home village or town |
| 乡亲 | fellow countryman (from the same village) local people villager |
| 乡人 | a villager a fellow villager |
| 乡人子 | young fellow countryman young person from the same village |
| 乡俗 | local customs; village customs |
| 乡僻 | far from town out-of-the-way place |
| 乡党 | village community |
| 乡勇 | local troops |
| 乡友 | friend from one's native village, town or province |
| 乡土 | native soil one's native land one's hometown |
| 乡土志 | local records; local annals |
| 乡土文学 | grass-roots literature |
| 乡土气息 | local colour |
| 乡土的 | local; agrestic; yokelish |
| 乡土观念 | parochialism |