Meaning
郷愁 (きょうしゅう, kyoushuu) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “nostalgia, homesickness”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 7
私は年末になると郷愁にかられる
I feel nostalgic at the end of the year.
彼はパリ時代を思い返して郷愁を感じた.
He looked back with nostalgia on the days when he lived in Paris.
管弦楽団は郷愁に満ちた音楽を演奏し始めた。
The orchestra struck up nostalgic music.
郷愁にふける時、私達は子供時代をこの上なく幸福な時期と考える傾向があるかもしれない。
In nostalgic moments we may tend to think of childhood as a time of almost unbroken happiness.
当時を顧みるとき,我々は深い郷愁の念に駆られ再びあの屈託のない自由な生活に戻りたいと願う.
When we look back on those days, we are filled with deep nostalgia and long to go back to that carefree life again.
戦後に成人した世代は、旧来の日本酒との接点を持たずに大人になり、増産酒以前の日本酒に味覚的郷愁を持っていなかった。
The generations who grew up in the postwar period without having a relation with conventional sake did not have a sense of nostalgia in the taste against the sake before zosanshu.
そのほか、「茶屋」という言葉が現代日本人に与える郷愁のイメージを屋号に採り入れ、「○○茶屋」とする飲食店も目立つ。
Besides them, the word 'chaya' is prominent amongst a number of restaurants as it is a word in a business name that evokes as sense of nostalgia amongst modern day Japanese.