鄉里
Chinese
country; village | li, a Chinese unit of length | ||
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trad. (鄉里) | 鄉 | 里 | |
simp. (乡里*) | 乡 | 里 |
Pronunciation
Noun
鄉里
- hometown; home village
- fellow villager; someone from the same hometown
- 郡遣督郵至縣,吏白「應束帶見之」,潛歎曰:「吾不能為五斗米折腰,拳拳事鄉里小人邪!」 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
- From: 648 CE, Fang Xuanling (lead editor), Book of Jin
- Jùn qiǎn dūyóu zhì xiàn, lì bái “yīng shùdài jiàn zhī”, Qián tàn yuē: “Wú bùnéng wèi wǔ dǒu mǐ zhéyāo, quánquán shì xiānglǐ xiǎorén yé!” [Pinyin]
- The commandery sent a postal inspector to the county, and an official suggested: "You should wear formal clothes to see him." Qian sighed: "I cannot bow down for the sake of five pecks of rice and flatter a base person [from my hometown]!"
郡遣督邮至县,吏白「应束带见之」,潜叹曰:「吾不能为五斗米折腰,拳拳事乡里小人邪!」 [Literary Chinese, simp.]
- (literary) wife
Synonyms
Derived terms
- 大鄉里
- 鄉里小人
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