| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 故郷 | こきょう, ふるさと, きゅうり | home town, birthplace, old village, historic village, native place, one's old home |
| 郷土 | きょうど | native place, birth-place, one's old home |
| 郷里 | きょうり | birth-place, home town |
| 郷愁 | きょうしゅう | nostalgia, homesickness |
| 同郷 | どうきょう | same village, same town, same province |
| 望郷 | ぼうきょう | homesickness, nostalgia |
| 帰郷 | ききょう | homecoming, return to one's home |
| 異郷 | いきょう | strange land |
| 郷 | さと | village, hamlet; countryside, country; home (of one's parents, etc.), hometown; one's origins, one's upbringing, one's past |
| 郷 | きょう | hometown; rural township (of China) |