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
- —常居habitually being (in a place); place one usually is
- —民居(private) house
- —居住地place of residence; dwelling place
- —居留地foreign settlement; concession; reservation (e.g. American Indian)
- —穴居人cave dweller; caveman
- —同居人person living with a family; lodger; housemate; flatmate; roommate
- —独居室cell (e.g. monk's)
- —楽隠居comfortable retirement
- —居住権right of residence (i.e. right to go on leasing a house, etc.)
- —居留民resident; residents
- —若隠居early retirement
- —雑居地mixed residential quarter
- —居住性liveability; livability
- —住居跡dwelling (habitation) site; site of a (prehistoric) settlement
- —転居先one's new address
- —入居者tenant (esp. of an apartment); occupant; resident (e.g. of a nursing home)
- —独居房single-person cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell
- —居住区residential area; quarter; neighbourhood; neighborhood
- —居留区population centre
- —別居婚commuter marriage