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Keyword
hometown
Info
FrequencyTop 1200-1300
Type
Kyōiku (6th grade) 
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Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 5
Heisig1993
Old form鄕
Readings
さと
(35%)
ごう
(9%)
Composed of
乡
cocoon thread
日
sun
厶
arm of a bodybuilder
阝
small village
Mnemonic

My hometown is a small village where I grew up as though I was in a cocoon isolated from the rest of the world, spending my days under the sun getting strong like a bodybuilder.

Used in kanji (2 in total)
響
echo
饗
feast
Used in vocabulary (79 in total)
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
village; hamlet; countryside; country
birth-place; home town
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Examples (60 in total)
I returned to my hometown after five years' absence.
This is my hometown.
This view reminds me of my home town.
This picture always reminds me of my hometown.
When I hear that song, I think about my hometown.
He was never to come back to his hometown.
He was never to return to his hometown.
He lives far away from his hometown.
He returned to his native village.
He left his native village, never to return.
How was your hometown?
I returned to my home this spring.
I wrote a letter to my parents at home.
We made our way towards our hometown.
Snow reminds me of my hometown.
He left his hometown on a cold morning.
My home lies far across the sea.
We visited his home country for the first time.
He dreamed about his home.
I sometimes dream of home.
He returned to his native village, where he spent the last few years of his life.
I must return home within a week.
When I visited my hometown this summer, I found the city different from what it had been ten years ago.
London is their second home.
My hometown is the best in the world.
He saw his home-town again only after ten years.
He had no notion of leaving his hometown.
We had no notion of leaving our hometown.
He leads a happy life in his hometown.
He retired to his hometown, where he lived a quiet life.
There is a beautiful museum in my hometown.
Last year I returned home and was surprised to find both the village and the people completely changed.
I miss my hometown.
My home town lies 10 miles south of New York.
Unable to prove his innocence, he was forced to leave his native town.
He visited his hometown for the first time in ten years.
I went back to my hometown for the first time in ten years.
I returned to my native village after two years' absence.
My hometown is in the center of Kobe.
Tom has written several songs about his hometown.
He came to see me all the way from his hometown.
Tom went back to his hometown.
Does he often call his parents at home?
My home town is adjacent to the ocean.
I left home when I was young.
Mr Sato ran a supermarket in his hometown before he came to Tokyo.
Have you visited the town where your father was born?
She was buried in her hometown.
If you ever go to Japan, please visit my hometown.
We are thinking of moving back home.
I am deeply attached to my hometown.
He settled down in his native country.
Brazil is the country I was born in.
Brazil is my home.
He left his hometown at the age of fifteen never to return.
Japan is, as it were, his second home.
Is there a restaurant around here that serves local delicacies?
Returning to your hometown after a long time fills you with nostalgia.
Listening to oldies reminds me of my hometown.
The Andromeda Galaxy is my home.