居室

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Chinese

		reside	room
simp. and trad. (居室)		居	室

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jūshì, jūshǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄕˋ, ㄐㄩㄕˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi¹ sat¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ku-sek / kir-siak / ki-sit

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jūshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jyushìh
  - Wade–Giles: chü¹-shih⁴
  - Yale: jyū-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiushyh
  - Palladius: цзюйши (czjujši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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    居士
    居室
- (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jūshǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄕˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jyushǐh
  - Wade–Giles: chü¹-shih³
  - Yale: jyū-shř
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiushyy
  - Palladius: цзюйши (czjujši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: geoi¹ sat¹
  - Yale: gēui sāt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: goey¹ sat⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: gêu¹ sed¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɵy̯⁵⁵ sɐt̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ku-sek
  - Tâi-lô: ku-sik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kuseg
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ku⁴⁴⁻²² siɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kir-siak
  - Tâi-lô: kir-siak
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kɯ³³ siak̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki-sit
  - Tâi-lô: ki-sit
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kisid
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴⁻²² sit̚³²/

Noun

居室

room (in a house), especially a bedroom
residence; dwelling; house

Synonyms

(room):

室 (shì) (literary, or in compounds)
屋子 (wūzi) (colloquial)
房間／房间 (fángjiān)
房頭／房头 (fángtóu) (literary)

(residence):

住宅 (zhùzhái)
住屋 (zhùwū)
住房 (zhùfáng)
住所 (zhùsuǒ)
住處／住处 (zhùchù)
宅第 (⁸zaq-di) (Wu)
宅舍 (zháishè) (literary)
宮／宫 (gōng) (archaic)
家室 (jiāshì)
宮室／宫室 (gōngshì) (archaic)
家居 (jiājū)
家屋 (jiāwū) (literary)
寓 (yù) (literary, or in compounds)
寓所 (yùsuǒ) (formal)
居所 (jūsuǒ)
屋子 (wūzi) (colloquial)
屋宇 (wūyǔ) (literary)
屋舍 (wūshè) (literary or Hakka)
房子 (fángzi)
房宇 (fángyǔ) (literary)
房屋 (fángwū)
房舍 (fángshè) (literary)
棟／栋 (dòng) (literary)

Verb

居室

(literary, of husband and wife) to live together

Japanese

Kanji in this term
居	室
きょ Grade: 5	しつ Grade: 2
on’yomi

Noun

居(きょ)室(しつ) • (kyoshitsu)

living room

Synonyms

居間(いま) (ima)

References

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
居	室

Noun

居室 • (geosil) (hangeul 거실)

Hanja form^? of 거실 (“living room”).

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