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蛰居

zhé jū

2-character word Traditional 蟄居

What 蛰居 means

1. to live in seclusion

The characters in 蛰居

• 蛰zhéto hibernate
• 居jūto reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up

Sounds the same

Read zhé jū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 谪居(of officials in imperial China) to live in banishment

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