Chinese language is made of characters which is a pictographic origin.

It seems the first LEGO as the few main radicals are put together to form infinity of words giving meaning to as the language, culture and people evovle…

Japanese Kanji are Chinese characters. Hometown is an intimate space to any being.
The word hometown in mandarin Chinese is 家乡(jiā xiāng). 家 = home; 乡 = town/village.
In Japanese, Furusato is made of Kanji pictograms for old + family related + country/region related = hometown.

Now that’s facinating and makes absolute sense! [why bother remembering volumes of dictionaries…]