(jū) - reside, live in Mandarin
jūTraditional: 居
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Translation
reside, live
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the radical 尸, a seated or reclining figure, gives the meaning of dwelling, and 古 (gǔ) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 尸 (seated-figure radical) + 古 (gǔ, phonetic)
Stroke order
居
Examples
。
He surprisingly did not come.
。
I reside in London.
。
There is actually such a thing.
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He lives alone in the mountains.
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We have lived in the city for many years.
居 (jū) means reside or live, but is most familiar as the first half of 居然 (jū rán), surprisingly.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 居.
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