乡里 (xiāng lǐ) — home village; one's native rural hometown; fellow villager(s); people from the same village/town

Definition

Examples

• 他离开乡里已经三十年了，但还是很怀念那里的生活。
  Tā lí kāi xiāng lǐ yǐ jīng sān shí nián le, dàn hái shì hěn huái niàn nà lǐ de shēng huó.
  He left his home village thirty years ago, but he still misses life there.
• 在城里遇到乡里，总觉得格外亲切。
  Zài chéng lǐ yù dào xiāng lǐ, zǒng jué de gé wài qīn qiè.
  When you run into a fellow villager in the city, you always feel especially close.
• 这位老人一辈子都没出过乡里，对村外的事了解很少。
  Zhè wèi lǎo rén yí bèi zi dōu méi chū guò xiāng lǐ, duì cūn wài de shì liǎo jiě hěn shǎo.
  This old man never left his home village his whole life; he knows little about what's outside the village.