HSK 6 · Verbs

居住 jūzhù “to live (in a place)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 居住 means

  1. to live (in a place)
  2. to reside
  3. to dwell
  4. resident in

How to say 居住

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale居jū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale住zhù4th tone, falling

居住 in a sentence

  1. 我现在居住在北京。

    Wǒ xiànzài jūzhù zài Běijīng.

    I live in Beijing now.

    Sentence #4620886 from Tatoeba

  2. 人类居住在世界的每一个角落。

    Rénlèi jūzhù zài shìjiè de měi yí ge jiǎoluò.

    Humans live in every corner of the world.

    Sentence #5997665 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 我曾经居住在一个小镇上。

    Wǒ céngjīng jūzhù zài yí ge xiǎozhèn shàng.

    I once lived in a small town.

    Sentence #3666962 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 居住 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 居 (jū) with each of its parts in a different colour
居jūto reside; to live
  • 户door · hùMeaning part
  • 古old · gǔSound part

户 hints at the meaning (door); 古 (gǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with jū.

The character 住 (zhù) with each of its parts in a different colour
住zhùto live; to reside; to stay
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 主to own · zhǔ

Memory aidA person 亻 staying where the host 主 lives: to live, to stay. 主 (zhǔ) also gives the sound.

How to write 居住

居 8 strokes · 住 7 strokes

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居住 (jūzhù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 居住 (jūzhù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 居住

Words with 居

邻居línjū · neighbour居然jūrán · unexpectedly居民jūmín · resident

Words with 住

住zhù · to live住院zhùyuàn · to be in hospital忍不住rěnbuzhù · cannot help住宅zhùzhái · residence

More words: Common Verbs

纠正jiūzhèng · to correct给予jǐyǔ · to give卷juǎn · to roll up鞠躬jūgōng · to bow开辟kāipì · to open up开拓kāituò · to open up开展kāizhǎn · to launch扛káng · to carry on one’s shoulder

FAQs

居住 (jūzhù) means “to live (in a place)” or “to reside”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jūzhù: jū with a 1st tone, then zhù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 居住 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type juzhu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 居住 from the suggestions. Typing juzhu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
居住 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.