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Keyword
to be (animate object)
  • reside
  • to be
  • exist
  • live with
Frequency
#836
Strokes
8
Grade
5
JLPT (old)
N2
Heisig
1143
Readings
キョ48%
い48%
お4%
Mnemonic
Grandpa is so old and still that kids planted a flag in him like a corpse with a flag; he grunts that this sofa is where he means to be (animate object).
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
居おる
to be (animate); to be; to exist; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
Godan verb
芝しば居い
play; drama
Noun
居い酒ざか屋や
izakaya; tavern, bar, etc. that also serves various dishes and snacks
Noun
居きょ住じゅう
residence; living (at, in); abode
Noun
皇こう居きょ
Imperial Palace (of Japan); imperial residence
Noun
居きょ住じゅう者しゃ
resident; inhabitant
Noun
入にゅう居きょ
moving in (to a house, apartment, etc.); taking up residence
Noun
住じゅう居きょ
dwelling; house; residence; address
Noun
同どう居きょ
living together; coexistence
Noun
居い場ば所しょ
whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
Noun
居心地いごこち
feeling of a house or a room
Noun
住居すまい
dwelling; house; residence; address; living; life
Noun
居い間ま
living room (Western style); sitting room
Noun
新しん居きょ
new home
Noun
別べっ居きょ
separation; living separately; living apart
Noun
敷しき居い
threshold (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors); sill
Noun
芝しば居い小ご屋や
playhouse; theatre; theater
Noun
居い眠ねむり
nodding off (while sitting); dozing
Noun
鳥とり居い
torii (Shinto shrine archway)
Noun
転てん居きょ
moving; changing residence; change of address
Noun
立たち居い振ふる舞まい
movements; bearing; deportment; carriage; behavior; behaviour; demeanor; demeanour; manners
Noun
居きょ
residence
Noun
居い
being (somewhere); sitting
Suffix
紙かみ芝しば居い
kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
Noun