Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N1

1077 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: home town, village, native place, district

Kunyomi: さと

Onyomi: キョウ ゴウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: おおざと

Meaning: town (阝 right)

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

里(きょうり)   birth-place, home town

土(きょうど)   native place, birth-place

愁(きょうしゅう)   nostalgia, homesickness

(こきょう)   home town, native place

(どうきょう)   from the same birthplace

(ぼうきょう)   homesickness, nostalgia

心(あいきょうしん)   love of one's hometown

する(ききょうする)   return to one's home

(きんごう)   neighboring districts

Onyomi Examples

キョウ hometown, rural township (of China)

キョウシュウ nostalgia, homesickness

ドウキョウ same village, same town, same province

コキョウ hometown, birthplace, native place, one's old home

ゴウ countryside, country, 50-home township (comprised of 2-3 neighbourhoods)

ゴウガク village school (esp. in Edo-era Japan, and ancient Korea and China)

スイゴウ beautiful riverside location, lakeside district, canal district

大西 ダイサイゴウ the Great Saigo

Kunyomi Examples

さと village, hamlet, countryside, country, home (of one's parents, etc.), hometown, one's origins, one's upbringing, one's past

無何有の むかうのさと utopia, (natural) paradise

第二の故 だいにのこきょう one's second home, home away from home