居室

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

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) きょしつ [kyòshítsú] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [kʲo̞ɕit͡sɨ]

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”)