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居住

jū zhù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

居住 (jū zhù) means "to reside". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 居住 means

1. to reside
2. to dwell
3. to live in a place
4. resident in

The characters in 居住

• 居jūto reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up
• 住zhùto live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease…

Example sentences

• 我在日本居住。
  I live in Japan.
• 她在纽约居住。
  She resides in New York.
• 他居住在英格兰。
  He lives in England.
• 他居住在国外多年。
  He lived abroad for many years.
• 我现在居住在北京。
  I live in Beijing now.
• 您在哪些国家居住过呀？
  What countries have you lived in?

Words starting with 居住

• 居住地jū zhù dìcurrent address; place of residence
• 居住于jū zhù yúto inhabit
• 居住者jū zhù zhěinhabitant
• 居住证jū zhù zhèngresidence permit

Words containing 居住

• 监视居住jiān shì jū zhù(PRC law) residential surveillance; to order sb to stay at their home, or a designated…

Where 居住 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiù–jū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jū zhù correctly.
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