籍贯

jíguàn

one's ancestral home (registered place of family origin, typically inherited patrilineally and recorded in official documents)

noun HSK 3.0 · Band 7 trad. 籍貫

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他籍贯是山东。

His ancestral home is Shandong.

表上填了籍贯。

The form has his ancestral home.