老乡 (lǎo xiāng): fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown

Meaning & Stroke Order

HSK 7noun

Word info

Pinyin
Meaning: fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
Characters: 2
Part of speech: noun
HSK level: HSK 7

Full definitions

fellow townsman
fellow villager
sb from the same hometown

Chinese explanation

来自同一个家乡的人，通常指同一个省、市、县或村的人。在外地见到老乡，往往让人感到特别亲切
也可以用来称呼和自己同乡的人，表示亲近。

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Character breakdown

HSK 3

prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity

HSK 5

country or countryside

Example sentences

At Beijing Railway Station, I heard someone speaking on the phone in our local dialect. Upon asking, it turned out he was a fellow townsman from the same county as me.

When I first arrived in Guangzhou to work, I didn't know anyone. Fortunately, a few fellow townsmen showed me around and even helped me find a place to live.

On Mid-Autumn Festival, a few of us fellow townsmen gathered in a rented room, cooked some hometown dishes, and chatted about our childhood while eating.

In a supermarket abroad, I suddenly heard someone greeting in our hometown dialect. I turned around and saw it was actually a fellow townsman.

Dad said that when he came to Shanghai to seek his fortune as a young man, he owed it to a fellow townsman's help that he found his first job at a factory.

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