The kanji 居: meaning, readings and stroke order
居
- Meaning
- be, live
- On reading
- キョ kyo
- Kun reading
- い(る) iru
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 尸 corpse
- Level
- Level 5 · grade 5
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- ở, có mặt (cư)
- Japanese
- いる。すむ。
- Korean
- 있다, 살다 (거)
- Chinese
- 在、居住
Readings, words and example sentences
キョ kyo · on reading · less common
住居
house, dwelling
むかしの 人の 住居を 調べます。
I find out what kind of homes people lived in long ago.
い(る) iru · kun reading
居る
to be (somewhere)
へやには だれも 居ません。
There is nobody in the room.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.