他乡他鄉 in English
- foreign land / away from one's native place
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
他
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Clerical script 西漢 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
乡
These are the forms of 鄉, the traditional character: 乡 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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关山难越,谁悲失路之人。萍水相逢,尽是他乡之客。
The mountain passes are hard to cross; who will mourn for those who have lost their way? Meeting by chance like drifting duckweed, we are all but travelers in a foreign land.