故乡 (gùxiàng) means Homeland. Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他离开 故乡 已经二十年了。
Tā líkāi gùxiāng yǐjīng èrshí nián le.
He has been away from his home town for twenty years.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 故乡
每次回 故乡 ，他都感慨万分。
Měi cì huí gùxiāng, tā dōu gǎnkǎi wànfēn.
Every time he returns home he is filled with emotion.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 故乡
他把父亲埋葬在了 故乡 。
Tā bǎ fùqīn máizàng zài le gùxiāng.
He buried his father in his home town.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 埋葬
这首歌表达了对 故乡 的思念。
Zhè shǒu gē biǎodá le duì gùxiāng de sīniàn.
This song expresses longing for one's home town.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 思念
这幅画寄托了他对 故乡 的思念。
Zhè fú huà jìtuō le tā duì gùxiāng de sīniàn.
This painting carries his longing for his home town.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 寄托
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Questions about 故乡
How is 故乡 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 故乡 (gùxiàng, "Homeland"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 故乡 an HSK word?
Yes — 故乡 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
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The dictionary page for 故乡 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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