异乡

異鄉
yìxiāng
  1. foreign land
  2. a place far from home

CEDICT

foreign land

Wiktionary

他乡。唐．韦庄〈江上别李秀才〉诗：「莫向尊前惜沉醉，与君俱是异乡人。」《三国演义．第五五回》：「念备一身飘荡异乡，生不能侍奉二亲，又不能祭祀宗祖，乃大逆不孝也。」也作「异地」。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 异 yì
  1. different
  2. other
  3. hetero-
  4. unusual
  5. strange
  6. surprising
  7. to distinguish
  8. to separate
  9. to discriminate
2 乡 xiāng
  1. country or countryside
  2. native place
  3. home village or town
  4. township (PRC administrative unit)

Containing this entry

客死异乡 kèsǐyìxiāng to die in a foreign land (idiom)
独在异乡为异客 dúzàiyìxiāngwéiyìkè a stranger in a strange land (from a poem by Wang Wei 王维 Wáng Wéi)
异乡人 yìxiāngrén stranger

Related entries

他乡 tāxiāng
  1. foreign land
  2. away from one's native place
殊乡 shūxiāng
  1. foreign land
  2. faraway land
番邦 fānbāng
  1. (old) foreign land
  2. alien nation