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Kanji for Homeland
The kanji for “homeland” is 郷, read kyou and written in 11 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
homeland
Your homeland; the place your heart returns to.
11 strokes On reading キョウ、ゴウ (kyou, gou) Kun reading さと (sato) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: home town, village, native place, district
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kyou, gou, sato
In Japan it appears in about 180 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
Names written with 郷: Golden 郷瑠千 · Goldie 郷瑠千 · Gordon 郷道
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