Keyword
village
Info
FrequencyTop 500-600
Type
Kyōiku (1st grade) 
?
KankenLevel 10
Heisig221
Readings
むら
(52%)
そん
(47%)
Composed of
tree
a few centimeters
Mnemonic

With a few centimeters of land and a tree — yep, that's enough to call it a village!

Used in vocabulary (113 in total)
village
village headman; village mayor
Examples (186 in total)
What's the name of this village?
It seemed that there was no one in the village.
That village has changed a lot from how it was 10 years ago.
They don't live in this village any more.
The world is a small village.
Have you ever been to that village?
There were no people in the village.
I wanted to return to your village.
To my surprise, there were no people in the village.
Towns are larger than villages.
All the villages were beautiful.
There are fifty families in this village.
This is the village where I was born.
This is the village where he was born.
This is the village where my father was born.
She was born in a small village.
People lived in villages.
He lives in a village.
She lives in this village.
My brother lives in a small village.
A pretty girl lived in that village.
The village in which he was born is far from here.
I hate this village.
This river runs through my village.
My older brother lives in a small village.
He had to leave the village.
I visited the village where he was born.
The hospital was far away from his village.
At last, we arrived at the village.
I arrived at the village before dark.
It was after dark when we got to the village.
There lived an old man in a village.
There are many old people in this village.
Once there lived an old man in a village.
A small village grew into a large city.
Once there lived an old man in the village.
The village is surrounded by mountains.
What's the difference between a village and a town?
They built a small village on an island.
All the villagers know of the accident.
He grew up in a little village.
The doctor is known to everyone in the village.
We went down to the valley where the village is.
I went back to my village during the summer vacation.
The village is connected with our town by a bridge.
He returned to his native village.
He left his native village, never to return.
I have lived in this village for the past ten years.
There is a lake on the east of the village.
There's a church in the center of the village.
During the summer vacation, I made friends with many villagers.
Many villagers were killed by soldiers.
The people in the village fell ill one after another.
No one in the village knew that the soldiers were taking aim at their village.
The village people built a wooden bridge across the river.
There is a village between the river and the hill.
Everybody in the village knew him.
The festival is looked forward to by the villagers.
We came by several small villages on our way here.
There is no factory in this village.
He got acquainted with some villagers.
The volunteer group provided the villagers with water.
I'm sure that she has arrived at the village by now.
This village doesn't have electricity.
The village doesn't have electricity.
The new school building is the boast of the village.
The news soon spread all over the village.
We got a hostile reception from the villagers.
He asked the first person he met near the village.
He worked as hard as any man in the village.
He returned to his native village, where he spent the last few years of his life.
The village lies 20 miles north of this town.
It's only three miles to the village.
It's only two miles to the village.
How far is it from here to the next village?
Nothing ever happens in this old village.
He went fishing in a river near the village.
The road to the village is very rough.
Another storm, and our village would have been ruined.
The next morning found him famous throughout the village.
The news of their marriage spread throughout the village.
The river supplies cities and villages with water.
They supplied the village with water.
They supplied the villagers with food.
Villagers were going to celebrate the wine festival.
There's narrow road to the village.
He is said to have been the richest man in the village.
This is the village where the poet was born.
He doesn't mingle with the villagers.
They moved to the village, where they lived a happy life.
She is living in some village in India.
The village was isolated by the heavy storm.
The village is insulated from the world.
In this village, they lived a happy life.
The villagers went in search of the missing child.
The tornado destroyed the whole village.
He is as brave a man as any in the village.
The population of this village had decreased.
It is a long way to the village.
Many scientists live in this small village.
Last year I returned home and was surprised to find both the village and the people completely changed.
We have supplied the villagers with food.
He is regarded as the best doctor in the village.
The church is in the middle of the village.
The fire burned down the whole village.
Sometimes bears wander into our village.
The party went on walking to the next village.
He lives in a small village in Kyushu.
I returned to my native village after two years' absence.
The villagers believed in life after death.
The typhoon did great damage to the village.
There is no bus service to the village.
He bent his steps toward the village.
The two villages adjoin each other.
The bus stopped in every village.
He got lost on his way to the village.
They live in a little village in England.
The village was isolated by the flood.
The flood did a lot of damage to the village.
Tom's mother lives in this village.
Tom was raised in a small village.
Tom lives in a small village.
Tom lives in a house on the edge of the village.
Tom lives in a house in the corner of a village.
I visited the village Tom was born in.
The path led to the village.
At the edge of the forest was a village.
There used to be a village here before the dam was made.
In Italy, each village holds a festival once a year.
During the vacation my sister and I stayed at a small village at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
Students came of their own accord to help the villagers.
The news caused alarm throughout the village.
The villagers regarded the stranger as their enemy.
They strengthened the embankments to protect the village from flooding.
There is a village about three kilometers up the river from here.
We drove through village after village, until we got to our destination.
If you take this bus, you will get to the village.
Once there was a poor farmer in the village.
It was less than one kilometer to the village post office.
There is Mr James who they say is the richest man in the village.
He is known to everyone in the village.
There's an old tower in the center of the village.
All the villagers went out into the hills to look for a missing cat.
My uncle has a farm in the village.
She soon adjusted herself to village life.
Tony saw green fields and small, quiet villages.
My wife goes to the village market to buy foods every day.
That village is the enemy's last stronghold.
The things in this village are cheaper than those in ours.
This is the village where I spent my childhood.
Most people in the village objected to the plan.
We held a farewell party in honor of Dr. Kawamura.
The villagers thought that he was very generous.
The fire reduced the whole village to ashes.
The good news spread through the village quickly.
Tom lived in a small fishing village.
The villagers are occupied mainly with fishing.
The village bakery has closed.
Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.
Tom grew up in an isolated village deep in the mountains.
This village is inhabited mainly by woodcutters and hunters.
The village which I visited last summer was a small one in Nagano Prefecture.
The village people had to pump water from the well by hand.
Is Mr. Nakamura at home?
The village is many kilometers away from the seashore.
The Murais have been married for ten years.
You, too, know Mr. Kimura, don't you?
The villagers petitioned against the nuclear power plant.
The villagers were kind to their visitors.
Once upon a time, there was an old man in this village.
A man named Carlos came to a mountain village looking for that old man.
The new bridge made it easy for the villagers to go to town.
The village was dead after sunset.
Please help me welcome Mr. Nomura.
The villagers supported a new road.
The scene was a tiny mountain village in a remote section of West Virginia.
I live in a very quiet village in Kabylie, Algeria.
This village is free from air pollution.
He is unquestionably the oldest man in the village.
The whole village was consumed by the fire.
Have you read Haruki Murakami's book?
Is Haruki Murakami popular in Vietnam as well?
Mr Tamura succeeded in the business world.
It's said that Japan's rural landscape has changed greatly.
They called the village New Amsterdam.
The village people called the old woman Meta.