Wiktionary

居

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

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

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

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • 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

Chinese edit

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

Glyph origin edit

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

Pronunciation 1 edit

Note:
  • ge1 - Chaozhou, Shantou, Chenghai, Jieyang;
  • gu1 - Chaoyang.
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
Baxter kjo
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 edit

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 edit

Pronunciation 2 edit

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
Baxter ki
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 edit

居

  1. † A modal particle.

Compounds edit

Pronunciation 3 edit

Definitions edit

居

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

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

居

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to sit

Readings edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

From Middle Chinese 居 (kjo).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

居(きょ) • (kyo) 

  1. residence

Etymology 2 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

居(い) • (i) ←ゐ (wi)?

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

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja edit

居 • (geo, gi) (hangeul 거, 기)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

居: Hán Nôm readings: cư

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