新居

Chinese

new; newly; meso- (chem.) reside
trad. (新居)
simp. #(新居)

Pronunciation


Noun

新居

  1. new residence; new home (new either as a building or to the resident(s))

Antonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しん
Grade: 2
きょ
Grade: 5
on’yomi kan’on

Etymology

Either from Middle Chinese compound 新居 (MC siɪn kɨʌ, literally “new + residence”), or coined independently in Japanese of Middle Chinese-derived elements as a compound of (shin, new) + (kyo, residence).

First cited to a text from 1403.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) んきょ [shíꜜǹkyò] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɕĩŋʲkʲo̞]

Noun

(しん)(きょ) (shinkyo) 

  1. [from 1403] a new house, a new home, either one that has been built new or that has been moved into recently
    Antonym: 旧居 (kyūkyo, literally old residence)

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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