粵

鄉hoeng1下haa6

simp乡下
hoeng1 haa6hoeng1 haa2xiāng xia

English

  1. countryside
  2. (noun) hometown
  3. rural area
  4. countryside; rural area
  5. native place; hometown (usu. of extended family rather than one's own); ancestral home

量詞 — Classifiers

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 相對城市,人比較少,以耕地居多嘅地方;通常都係比較落後
  2. 祖籍、出生地

Examples

  • 我鄉下好靚。

    My hometown is very pretty.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 阿 Tom 返咗鄉下。

    Tom went back to his hometown.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 喺呢二百年裏面,有好多人喺鄉下搬咗去市區度住。

    This movement from rural to urban areas has been going on for over two hundred years.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 我想搬去鄉下住。

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 相反,佢話鄉下同村莊嘅人成日抱怨缺乏設施畀佢哋嘅小朋友學習英文,從而有機會搵到好啲嘅工作同更好嘅生活。

    Tatoeba · Matthewyau1367 CC BY

  • 她住在鄉下。

    She lives in the country.

    Tatoeba · DaoSeng CC BY

  • 鄉下話

    language or dialect of one's ancestral hometown

  • 返鄉下

    to visit one's native place or ancestral home

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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