居

#1812 by frequency

Jū

surname Ju; to reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up; to be at a standstill; residence; house; restaurant; classifier for bedrooms

jī

(archaic) sentence-final particle expressing a doubting attitude

Examples

他和老婆分居。

He is living apart from his wife.

昨晚我邻居家着火了。

A fire broke out in my neighborhood last night.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.