住 — dwell, reside, live

じゅう住 dwell

じゅう

U+4F4F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #270 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #959 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

dwell
reside
live

Readings

On'yomi: じゅう juu ちゅう chuu
Kun'yomi: す su ず zu

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じゅう juu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

住(じゅう) juu dwelling 住(じゅう) 所(しょ) juusho address 住(じゅう) 人(にん) juunin resident 先(せん) 住(じゅう) senjuu original inhabitant 安(あん) 住(じゅう) anjuu living in peace 住(じゅう) 民(みん) juumin resident 先(せん) 住(じゅう) 民(みん) senjuumin indigenous people 住(じゅう) 民(みん) 票(ひょう) juuminhyou certificate of residence

す su Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

住(す) む sumu to live 住(す) まい sumai residence

Words by frequency and grade

23 words

Each dot is a word containing 住: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 10 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

ぬし主 owner

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 亻 (person) provides the meaning domain. 主 (shu/jū, lord) gives the sound. To dwell or reside.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#9 人 person