居
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(literary) to reside; to live; (bound form) to occupy (a position); (literary) to store up; (literary) to remain; to stay; (bound form) residence; dwelling; (bound form) used in names of restaurants
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #534 U+5C45
How 居 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
户 (semantic, “door”) + 古 (phonetic, gǔ)
How to remember it
reside · Heisig RSH #888
flag + 古 ancient
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 古
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 古 (gǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound component | gǔ | old, classic, ancient |
| 苦 | kǔ | bitter; hardship, suffering |
| 胡 | hú | recklessly, foolishly; wildly |
| 故 | gù | reason, cause; happening, instance |
| 固 | gù | to solidify; strength |
| 估 | gū | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume |
| 咕 | gū | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble |
| 鸪 | gū | species of Taiwan pigeon |
| 沽 | gū | to buy and sell; of inferior quality |
| 蛄 | gū | mole cricket |
| 辜 | gū | crime, offense, sin |
| 祜 | hù | blessings, happiness, prosperity |
| 怙 | hù | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) |
| 钴 | gǔ | cobalt; clothes-iron |
| 罟 | gǔ | net, snare; to implicate |
| 诂 | gǔ | explanation; to comment, to explain |
| 骷 | kū | skeleton |
| 嘏 | gǔ | felicity, prosperity; large and strong |
| 轱 | gū | wheel; to revolve, to turn |
Words containing 居
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 居高不下 | jū gāo bù xià | (of prices, rates etc) to remain high |
| 以老大自居 | yǐ lǎo dà zì jū | regarding oneself as number one in terms of leadership, seniority or status |
| 后来者居上 | hòu lái zhě jū shàng | the latecomers surpass their predecessors |
| 安居区 | Ān jū Qū | Anju, a district of Suining City 遂寧市|遂宁市[Sui4 ning2 Shi4], Sichuan |
| 居民点儿 | jū mín diǎn r | variant of 居民點|居民点[ju1 min2 dian3] |
| 后来居上 | hòu lái jū shàng | (idiom) see 後來者居上|后来者居上[hou4 lai2 zhe3 ju1 shang4] |
| 居里夫人 | Jū lǐ fū ren | Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867–1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) a… |
| 居民区 | jū mín qū | residential area; neighborhood |
| 安居乐业 | ān jū lè yè | to live in peace and work happily (idiom) |
| 当地居民 | dāng dì jū mín | a local person; the local population |
| 居无定所 | jū wú dìng suǒ | to be without a fixed residence (idiom) |
| 民族杂居地区 | mín zú zá jū dì qū | mixed ethnic area |
| 定居点 | dìng jū diǎn | settlement |
| 居民点 | jū mín diǎn | residential area |
| 安居工程 | ān jū gōng chéng | housing project for low-income urban residents |
| 定居者 | dìng jū zhě | settler |
| 居高临下 | jū gāo lín xià | lit. to be in a high location, overlooking the scene below (idiom); fig. to occupy a comma… |
| 人居 | rén jū | human habitat |
| 居人 | jū rén | inhabitant |
| 临时分居 | lín shí fēn jū | trial separation |