住

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住 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人卜土 (OYG), four-corner 2021₄, composition ⿰亻主)

• 𡸌, 𣁑, 𪝲, 𬷗, 𭰠, 𥇁

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 98, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 505
• Dae Jaweon: page 207, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 137, character 9
• Unihan data for U+4F4F

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tos, *dos) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 主 (OC *tjoʔ).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-duŋ/k ~ m-tuŋ/k (“to sit”) (STEDT).

住

1. to live; to dwell; to reside

   我住喺香港。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   ngo⁵ zyu⁶ hai² hoeng¹ gong².

   I live in Hong Kong.

2. to stay

   讓愛住我家 [MSC, trad.]
   让爱住我家 [MSC, simp.]

   From: 赵明, 《让爱住我家》

   Ràng ài zhù wǒ jiā

   Let love stay at/fill our home

3. to stop; to cease
4. Verb suffix indicating firmness, steadiness or coming to a halt.

   • 契丹分明是被金帛買住了。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     契丹分明是被金帛买住了。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 13th century, various editors, A Collection of Conversations of Master Zhu (《朱子語類》)

     Qìdān fēnmíng shì bèi jīnbó mǎizhù le.

     It's clear that the Khitans were totally bought off with the money and goods.

5. (Cantonese) Verb suffix indicating ongoing action's status.

   戴住眼鏡／戴住眼镜 [Cantonese]  ―  daai³ zyu⁶ ngaan⁵ geng³   ―  wearing glasses

   唔好去住先。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   m⁴ hou² heoi³ zyu⁶ sin¹.

   (For now) don't go.

(Verb suffix indicating ongoing action's status):

• (Cantonese) 緊／紧 (gan2)
• (Mandarin) 著／着 (zhe)

(Verb suffix indicating firmness, steadiness or coming to a halt):

• (Hokkien) 牢 (tiâu)

• “住”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	住
Kyūjitai [1][2][3]	住󠄁 住+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	住󠄃 住+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. dwelling, reside

• Go-on: じゅう (jū, Jōyō)^{←ぢゆう (dyuu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅう (chū)^{←ちゆう (tyuu, historical)}
• Kun: すむ (sumu, 住む, Jōyō)、すみ (sumi, 住み)、すまう (sumau, 住まう, Jōyō)、すまい (sumai, 住まい)、とどまる (todomaru, 住まる)
• Nanori: おき (oki)、もち (mochi)、よし (yoshi)

From Middle Chinese 住 (MC drjuH).

The goon pronunciation, so likely the initial borrowing.

• (Tokyo) じゅう (Atamadaka – )^[4][5]
• IPA^(key):

住(じゅう) • (jū) ^{←ぢゆう (dyuu)?}

1. the act of dwelling, residing, living in a place
2. abode, residence

   Synonyms: 住まい (sumai), 住居 (jūkyo)

住(じゅう) • (-jū) ^{←ぢゆう (-dyuu)?}

1. added after a placename to indicate where someone lives

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

From Middle Chinese 住 (MC drjuH|trjuH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

住

Wikisource

住 (eumhun 살 주 (sal ju))

1. hanja form^? of 주 (“to reside”)
2. hanja form^? of 주 (“to stay at”)
3. hanja form^? of 주 (“to stop”)
4. hanja form^? of 주 (“to pick up, to raise”)
5. hanja form^? of 주 (“whereabouts, house”)
6. hanja form^? of 주 (“resident”)

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 住

住: Hán Nôm readings: trú, trọ, giọ

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