寄居
jì jū
Pinyin

Definition

寄居
 - 
jì jū
  1. to live away from home

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

jū rán
  1. 1 unexpectedly
  2. 2 to one's surprise
  3. 3 go so far as to
tóng jū
  1. 1 to live together
jiā jū
  1. 1 home
  2. 2 residence
  3. 3 to stay at home (unemployed)
  1. 1 to send
  2. 2 to mail
  3. 3 to entrust
  4. 4 to depend on
  5. 5 to attach oneself to
  6. 6 to live (in a house)
  7. 7 to lodge
  8. 8 foster (son etc)
jì tuō
  1. 1 to entrust (to sb)
  2. 2 to place (one's hope, energy etc) in
  3. 3 a thing in which you invest (your hope, energy etc)

Idioms (13)

功成不居
gōng chéng bù jū
  1. 1 not to claim personal credit for achievement (idiom)
千里寄鹅毛
qiān lǐ jì é máo
  1. 1 goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
  2. 2 also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛
安居乐业
ān jū lè yè
  1. 1 to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
寄人篱下
jì rén lí xià
  1. 1 to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
居功自傲
jū gōng zì ào
  1. 1 satisfied with one's accomplishment and arrogant as a result (idiom); resting on one's laurels and despising others