verb #7,214

Meanings

  1. 1 to reside; to dwell
  2. 2 to occupy (a position)
  3. 3 residence

Examples

Tā jūzhù zài Běijīng.
He resides in Beijing.
Zhège chéngshì de jūmín hěn yǒuhǎo.
The residents of this city are very friendly.
Tā zài bān shàng jū dìyī míng.
He ranks first in the class.

Tips

usage
appears in 居住 (jūzhù, to reside), 居民 (jūmín, resident), 邻居 (línjū, neighbor), 居然 (jūrán, unexpectedly).

Components

radical
shī
body; seated person (radical)
Outer — the indexing radical, picturing a person seated or reclining. Anchors in the meaning of dwelling: a body settled in a place. Same body-at-rest family as (house), (rear), (layer), (screen). The hint character looked like but the three strokes here are the seated-figure .
phonetic
ancient
Inner supplies the sound (gǔ → jū through a regular palatalization in this phonetic series) and adds a faint flavor of long-settled ancestry: a person dwelling on ancestral ground. Same phonetic family: (reason/old), (aunt), (estimate), (bitter).

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