居室

Chinese

		reside	room
simp. and trad. (居室)		居	室

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jūshì, jūshǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩ ㄕˋ, ㄐㄩ ㄕˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi¹ sat¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ku-sek / kir-siak / ki-sit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jūshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyushìh
    • Wade–Giles: chü¹-shih⁴
    • Yale: jyū-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiushyh
    • Palladius: цзюйши (czjujši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jūshǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩ ㄕˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyushǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chü¹-shih³
    • Yale: jyū-shř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiushyy
    • Palladius: цзюйши (czjujši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: geoi¹ sat¹
    • Yale: gēui sāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: goey¹ sat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: gêu¹ sed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɵy̯⁵⁵ sɐt̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ku-sek
    • Tâi-lô: ku-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kuseg
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ku⁴⁴⁻²² siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kir-siak
    • Tâi-lô: kir-siak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɯ³³ siak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki-sit
    • Tâi-lô: ki-sit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kisid
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴⁻²² sit̚³²/

Noun

居室

1. room (in a house), especially a bedroom
2. residence; dwelling; house

Synonyms

• (room):

• 室 (shì) (literary, or in compounds)
• 屋子 (wūzi) (colloquial)
• 房間／房间 (fángjiān)
• 房頭／房头 (fángtóu) (literary)

 

• (residence):

• 住宅 (zhùzhái)
• 住屋 (zhùwū)
• 住房 (zhùfáng)
• 住所 (zhùsuǒ)
• 住處／住处 (zhùchù)
• 宅第 (⁸zaq-di) (Wu)
• 宅舍 (zháishè) (literary)
• 宮／宫 (gōng) (archaic)
• 家室 (jiāshì)
• 宮室／宫室 (gōngshì) (archaic)
• 家居 (jiājū)
• 家屋 (jiāwū) (literary)
• 寓 (yù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 寓所 (yùsuǒ) (formal)
• 居所 (jūsuǒ)
• 屋子 (wūzi) (colloquial)
• 屋宇 (wūyǔ) (literary)
• 屋舍 (wūshè) (literary or Hakka)
• 房子 (fángzi)
• 房宇 (fángyǔ) (literary)
• 房屋 (fángwū)
• 房舍 (fángshè) (literary)
• 棟／栋 (dòng) (literary)

 

Verb

居室

1. (literary, of husband and wife) to live together

Japanese

Kanji in this term
居	室
きょ Grade: 5	しつ Grade: 2
on’yomi

Noun

居(きょ)室(しつ) • (kyoshitsu) 

1. living room

Synonyms

• 居間(いま) (ima)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
居	室

Noun

居室 • (geosil) (hangeul 거실)

1. Hanja form^? of 거실 (“living room”).