漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
住: dwell, reside
Also: live, inhabit
JLPT N47 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 主 gives the sound
7 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
ジュウjuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 住民じゅうみんresidents
- 住所じゅうしょaddress
- 住宅じゅうたくhousing
- 移住するいじゅうするmigrate
すむsumu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 住むすむlive
すまうsumau · kun'yomi
- 住まいすまいdwelling
Also read ヂュウ, チュウ, -ずまい, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人, as 亻 (meaning) + 主 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 住 (rev. 93871352), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
主
Also built on lord (主)
住 takes the 主 family's reading, チュウ (chuu).
Also read ジュウ
11 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side住 dwell · 亻
vs往 journey · 彳In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhù
Same form: 住 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 住 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 住 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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