Illustration: A traveler with a small suitcase arrives at a house on a quiet Japanese residential street, where an older parent welcomes them from the gate. The traveler holds a childhood photograph showing themselves beside this same gate, with its distinctive bent pine tree and low stone wall.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

郷きょう里り

kyouri

hometown

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしの郷里きょうりの町まちは海うみに接せっしている。

    My home town is adjacent to the ocean.

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  2. 余生よせいは郷里きょうりで暮くらしたい。

    I want to spend the rest of my life in my hometown.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 彼かれは郷里きょうりの両親りょうしんによく電話でんわしますか。

    Does he often call his parents at home?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 郷里

  • 郷home town; villageOnキョウ・ゴウKunさと
  • 里ri; villageOnリKunさと

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