異鄉

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

CEDICT

foreign land

Wiktionary

他鄉。唐．韋莊〈江上別李秀才〉詩：「莫向尊前惜沉醉，與君俱是異鄉人。」《三國演義．第五五回》：「念備一身飄蕩異鄉，生不能侍奉二親，又不能祭祀宗祖，乃大逆不孝也。」也作「異地」。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

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

Containing this entry

客死異鄉 kèsǐyìxiāng to die in a foreign land (idiom)
獨在異鄉為異客 dúzàiyìxiāngwéiyìkè a stranger in a strange land (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維 Wáng Wéi)
異鄉人 yìxiāngrén stranger

Related entries

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