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定居

dìng jū

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

定居 (dìng jū) means "to settle (in some city, country etc); to take up residence". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 定居 means

1. to settle (in some city, country etc); to take up residence

The characters in 定居

• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…
• 居jūto reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up

Example sentences

• 部落成员沿着河岸定居了。
  Bùluò chéngyuán yánzhe hé'àn dìngjū le.
  Members of that tribe settled along the river.
• 他们结了婚并定居在波士顿附近。
  Tāmen jiéle hūn bìng dìngjū zài Bōshìdùn fùjìn.
  They got married and settled near Boston.
• 他的第二个儿子结婚并定居下来了。
  Tā de dì'èr gè érzi jiéhūn bìng dìngjū xiàlai le.
  His second son married and settled down.

Words starting with 定居

• 定居点dìng jū diǎnsettlement
• 定居者dìng jū zhěsettler

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