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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 尸 +5
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 居
- Common rank
- #534
- Unicode
- U+5C45
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Formation & memory
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Words with 居
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 居高不下 | (of prices, rates etc) to remain high | |
| 以老大自居 | regarding oneself as number one in terms of leadership, seniority or status | |
| 后来者居上 | the latecomers surpass their predecessors | |
| 安居区 | Anju, a district of Suining City 遂寧市|遂宁市[Sui4 ning2 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 居民点儿 | variant of 居民點|居民点[ju1 min2 dian3] | |
| 后来居上 | (idiom) see 後來者居上|后来者居上[hou4 lai2 zhe3 ju1 shang4] | |
| 居里夫人 | Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867–1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) a… | |
| 居民区 | residential area; neighborhood | |
| 安居乐业 | to live in peace and work happily (idiom) | |
| 当地居民 | a local person; the local population | |
| 居无定所 | to be without a fixed residence (idiom) | |
| 民族杂居地区 | mixed ethnic area | |
| 定居点 | settlement | |
| 居民点 | residential area | |
| 安居工程 | housing project for low-income urban residents | |
| 定居者 | settler | |
| 居高临下 | lit. to be in a high location, overlooking the scene below (idiom); fig. to occupy a comma… | |
| 人居 | human habitat | |
| 居人 | inhabitant | |
| 临时分居 | trial separation |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 古 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound part | old, classic, ancient | |
| 苦 | bitter; hardship, suffering | |
| 胡 | recklessly, foolishly; wildly | |
| 故 | reason, cause; happening, instance | |
| 固 | to solidify; strength | |
| 估 | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume | |
| 咕 | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble | |
| 鸪 | species of Taiwan pigeon | |
| 沽 | to buy and sell; of inferior quality | |
| 蛄 | mole cricket | |
| 辜 | crime, offense, sin | |
| 祜 | blessings, happiness, prosperity | |
| 怙 | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) | |
| 钴 | cobalt; clothes-iron | |
| 罟 | net, snare; to implicate | |
| 诂 | explanation; to comment, to explain | |
| 骷 | skeleton | |
| 嘏 | felicity, prosperity; large and strong | |
| 轱 | wheel; to revolve, to turn |