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居

居

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

Translingual

Han character

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

References

  • KangXi: page 300, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7663
  • Dae Jaweon: page 597, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 968, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5C45

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 居

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 居
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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

Rime
Character 居 居
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 之 (19) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 居之切 九魚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨ/ /kɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɨ/ /kiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kie/ /kiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨ/ /kɨə̆/
Li
Rong		 /kiə/ /kiɔ/
Wang
Li		 /kĭə/ /kĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki/ /ki̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jī jū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 居 居 居
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jū jū jū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjo › ‹ kjo › ‹ kjoH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k(r)a/ /*ka/ /*k(r)a-s/ (based on rhyme evidence)
English squat; stay, dwell final particle 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 居
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4209 4264
Phonetic
component		 古 古
Rime
group		 之 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 姬 居
Old
Chinese		 /*kɯ/ /*kas/

Definitions

居

  1. to live; to dwell; to reside
  2. to occupy; to rank
  3. to claim
  4. to stay put
  5. house; residence; dwelling
  6. restaurant

Compounds

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 ‎(hiragana きょ, romaji kyo)

  1. residence

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun

居 ‎(hiragana い, romaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

  1. residence
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  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 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

居 • ‎(geo, gi) (hangeul 거, 기, revised geo, gi, McCune-Reischauer kŏ, ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

居 (cư)

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