郷
キョウ, ゴウ, さと, くに

home town, village, native place, district

JLPT1 G6 S11 F1077

An abbreviated form# of a variant of 卿 (be positioned opposite) + 邑 village/settlement → villages/settlements that face/are opposed at a distance → *village*; *countryside* → *rural*.

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