Kanji1 / 8
居 kanji
reside, to be, exist, live with
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
キョコ
Kun readings
いる-いおる
Variant forms
凥Words with 居
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —占居occupying a certain place
- —独居living alone; solitude; solitary life
- —卜居choosing a homesite by divination
- —幽居hermitage; retreat; retirement; seclusion
- —屏居living in retirement
- —蟄居shutting oneself up in one's house; staying indoors; living in seclusion; house arrest (Edo-period punishment)
- —籠居staying at home or indoors; living in seclusion; retirement
- —寓居temporary abode; staying on a temporary basis
- —居城castle of a feudal lord
- —居然calm or at rest; having nothing to do; still
- —閉居shutting oneself up at home
- —寡居widowhood
- —居常daily life
- —居宅residence; dwelling; home
- —退居retirement from active life; moving out of accommodation; finding a new residence
- —在居stay; residence; sojourn
- —居在stay; residence; sojourn
- —居館residence; mansion; estate; dwelling
- —集居inhabiting a region (esp. in China); living in a concentrated community
- —居中being in the middle; being impartial; standing between two things