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- to reside
- to be (in a certain position)
- to store up
- to be at a standstill
- residence
- house
- restaurant
- classifier for bedrooms
Trad. 溫居
- to have a housewarming party
- to celebrate moving into a new home
- to separate (married couple)
- to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
Trad. 閑居
- to lead a quiet and peaceful life in retirement
- to stay home with nothing to do
- to lead a solitary life
Trad. 鳥居
- torii (gateway of a Shinto shrine) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鳥居 "torii")
- (law) residential surveillance at a designated location (PRC legal measure confining suspects to government-assigned residences under continuous monitoring) (abbr. for 指定居所監視居住|指定居所监视居住[zhi3 ding4 ju1 suo3 jian1 shi4 ju1 zhu4])
- to be between two parties (as in mediation)
- to be in the middle; to be in between
- (page layout) to be centered
- to live at home
- to stay at home
- home (schooling etc)
- in-home (care etc)
- household (repairs etc)
- living (environment etc)
Trad. 僑居
- to live far away from one's native place
- to reside in a foreign country
- to stand above
- to occupy an important position
- to rank (among the top few)
Trad. 張居正
- Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), Grand Secretary during the Ming dynasty, credited with bringing the dynasty to its apogee
Trad. 仙居縣
- Xianju county in Taizhou 台州[Tai1 zhou1], Zhejiang
- Xue Juzheng (912-981), Song historian and compiler of History of the Five Dynasties between Tang and Song 舊五代史|旧五代史
Trad. 郭居靜
- Lazzaro Cattaneo (1560-1640), Italian Jesuit missionary in China
Trad. 居庸關
- Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平區|昌平区[Chang1 ping2 qu1]
Trad. 安居區
- Anju, a district of Suining City 遂寧市|遂宁市[Sui4 ning2 Shi4], Sichuan
- lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom)
- fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
Trad. 監視居住
- (PRC law) residential surveillance
- to order sb to stay at their home, or a designated location, under surveillance
Trad. 奇貨可居
- rare commodity worth hoarding
- object for profiteering
Trad. 退居二線
- to withdraw to the second line of duty
- to resign from a leading post (and assume an advisory post)
Trad. 囤積居奇
- to hoard and profiteer
- to speculate
- not to claim personal credit for achievement (idiom)
- satisfied with one's accomplishment and arrogant as a result (idiom); resting on one's laurels and despising others
Trad. 居功至偉
- see 厥功至偉|厥功至伟[jue2 gong1 zhi4 wei3]
- to think of danger in times of safety
- to be vigilant in peacetime (idiom)
- What's (he) up to?
- What's the motive behind all this?
Trad. 居心叵測
- harboring unfathomable motives (idiom)
Trad. 後來居上
- (idiom) see 後來者居上|后来者居上[hou4 lai2 zhe3 ju1 shang4]
Trad. 居民點兒
- variant of 居民點|居民点[ju1 min2 dian3]
Trad. 居無定所
- to be without a fixed residence (idiom)
Trad. 居禮夫人
- variant of 居里夫人[Ju1 li3 fu1 ren5]
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867–1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911)
Trad. 居高臨下
- lit. to be in a high location, overlooking the scene below (idiom)
- fig. to occupy a commanding position
- to assume a haughty attitude
- housing project for low-income urban residents
Trad. 當地居民
- a local person
- the local population
Trad. 安居樂業
- to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
Trad. 翹居群首
- head and shoulders above the crowd (idiom); preeminent
- outstanding
Trad. 永久居留權
- permanent residency
Trad. 永久居留證
- permanent residency permit
- regarding oneself as number one in terms of leadership, seniority or status
Trad. 後來者居上
- the latecomers surpass their predecessors
Trad. 居魯士大帝
- Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon
Trad. 民族雜居地區
- mixed ethnic area
Trad. 居民消費價格指數
- consumer price index CPI