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居 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸十口 (SJR), four-corner 77264, composition ⿸尸古)

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7663
  • Dae Jaweon: page 597, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 968, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5C45
simp. and trad.
 居
alternative forms
Old Chinese
箇 *kaːls
個 *kaːls
居 *kɯ, *kas
橭 *kaː, *kʰaː
嫴 *kaː
姑 *kaː
辜 *kaː
酤 *kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
蛄 *kaː
鴣 *kaː
沽 *kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
盬 *kaː, *kaːʔ
古 *kaːʔ
罟 *kaːʔ
估 *kaːʔ
鈷 *kaːʔ
詁 *kaːʔ
牯 *kaːʔ
故 *kaːs
固 *kaːs
稒 *kaːɡs
痼 *kaːɡs
錮 *kaːɡs
鯝 *kaːɡs
棝 *kaːɡs
凅 *kaːɡs
枯 *kʰaː
軲 *kʰaː
跍 *kʰaː
骷 *kʰaː
苦 *kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
葫 *qʰaː, *ɡaː
餬 *ɡaː
瑚 *ɡaː
湖 *ɡaː
鶘 *ɡaː
猢 *ɡaː
醐 *ɡaː
糊 *ɡaː
箶 *ɡaː
蝴 *ɡaː
胡 *ɡaː
瓳 *ɡaː
怙 *ɡaːʔ
祜 *ɡaːʔ
岵 *ɡaːʔ
婟 *ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
楛 *ɡaːʔ
据 *ka
裾 *ka
琚 *ka
椐 *ka, *kas, *kʰa
鶋 *ka
蜛 *ka
崌 *ka
涺 *ka
腒 *ka, *ɡa
鋸 *kas
倨 *kas
踞 *kas
涸 *ɡaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kɯ, *kas) : semantic 尸 + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ).

Note:

  • ge1 - Chaozhou, Shantou, Chenghai, Jieyang;
  • gu1 - Chaoyang.

Note: 1ke is vernacular.

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 居 居
Reading # 1/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jū jū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kjo › ‹ kjoH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*k(r)a/ /*k(r)a-s/ (based on rhyme evidence)
English squat; stay, dwell dwelling

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 居
Reading # 2/2
No. 4264
Phonetic
component 		古
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		居
Old
Chinese 		/*kas/

居

  1. to live; to dwell; to reside
  2. to occupy (a place or position); to be located at; to rank
  3. to stay put; to sit down
  4. to store up; to stockpile
  5. to claim
  6. house; residence; dwelling
  7. restaurant
  8. 39th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "residence" (𝌬)
  9. a surname
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 居
Reading # 2/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kjo ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ka/
English final particle

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 居
Reading # 1/2
No. 4209
Phonetic
component 		古
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		姬
Old
Chinese 		/*kɯ/

居

  1. † A modal particle.

居

  1. † Alternative form of 倨 (jù, “haughty”)
    羔裘豹袪、自我人居居。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Gāoqiú bàoqū, zì wǒ rén jūjū. [Pinyin]
    Lamb's fur and leopard's cuffs, you use us with unkindness.

居

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. to sit
Kanji in this term
居
きょ
Grade: 5
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 居 (kjo).

居(きょ) • (kyo) 

  1. residence
Kanji in this term
居
い
Grade: 5
kun'yomi

居(い) • (i) ←ゐ (wi)?

  1. being (in a place), sitting (in a place); a seat

Derived terms

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

居 • (geo, gi) (hangeul 거, 기)

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居: Hán Nôm readings: cư

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