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鸟居

niǎo jū

2-character word Traditional 鳥居

What 鸟居 means

1. torii (gateway of a Shinto shrine) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鳥居 "torii")

The characters in 鸟居

• 鸟niǎobird; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196)…
• 居jūto reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up

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