Illustration: In a small city apartment, a young adult sits beside an opened parcel of vegetables still carrying traces of garden soil. They hold a familiar patched kitchen apron from the parcel against their cheek, smiling with wet eyes.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

郷きょう愁しゅう

kyoushuu

nostalgia, homesickness

Example sentences

  1. 管弦楽団かんげんがくだんは郷愁きょうしゅうに満みちた音楽おんがくを演奏えんそうし始はじめた。

    The orchestra struck up nostalgic music.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 郷愁きょうしゅうにふける時とき、私達わたしたちは子供時代こどもじだいをこの上うえなく幸福こうふくな時期じきと考かんがえる傾向けいこうがあるかもしれない。

    In nostalgic moments we may tend to think of childhood as a time of almost unbroken happiness.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. そのほか、「茶屋ちゃや」という言葉ことばが現代日本人げんだいにっぽんじんに与あたえる郷愁きょうしゅうのイメージを屋号やごうに採とり入いれ、「○○茶屋ちゃや」とする飲食店いんしょくてんも目立めだつ。

    Restaurants with names like “XX Chaya” are also common, using the word “chaya” for the nostalgia it evokes among Japanese people today.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 郷愁

  • 郷home town; villageOnキョウ・ゴウKunさと
  • 愁distress; grieveOnシュウKunうれえる・うれい

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