居

居 U+5C45, 居
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C45
← 屄
[U+5C44] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 屆 →
[U+5C46]

Translingual
Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character

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

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: 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

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 居
alternative forms
 
凥
㝒
𡨢
㞐
𧿃
凥
㝒
𡨢
㞐
𧿃
𢨶

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 居
Spring and Autumn Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (古) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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, OC *kɯ, *kas) : semantic 尸 + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ).

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • ge1 - Chaozhou, Shantou, Chenghai, Jieyang;
  • gu1 - Chaoyang.
  • Wu
    • (Shanghainese)
      • Wiktionary: 1jy; 1ke
      • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕy⁵³/, /ke̞⁵³/
Note: 1ke is vernacular.
Rime
Character 居
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 九魚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨə̆/
Li
Rong		 /kiɔ/
Wang
Li		 /kĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 geoi1
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/

Definitions

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

Compounds
Derived terms from 居

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 居
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨ/
Li
Rong		 /kiə/
Wang
Li		 /kĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 gei1
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/

Definitions

居

  1. † A modal particle.

Compounds
Derived terms from 居

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

居

  1. † Alternative form of 倨 (jù, “haughty”).

References

Japanese

Kanji
居

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to sit

Readings

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
居
きょ
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 居 (kjo).

Pronunciation

Noun

居(きょ) • (kyo) 

  1. residence

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
居
い
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [i]

Noun

居(い) • (i) ←ゐ (wi)?

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

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

居 • (geo, gi) (hangeul 거, 기)

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Vietnamese

Han character

居: Hán Nôm readings: cư

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