xiangcommon nounEtymologyexpandFrom Chinese 湘 xiāng.Definition1. A Sinitic language spoken mainly in the Hunan and Sichuan provinces of China, with over 36 million speakers. The ISO 639-3 code is: hsn.expandSynonymhunanaisPluralxiangsTranslationsenglish:Xiangchinese:湘语japanese:湘語