Character: 居
Modern (Beijing) reading: jū
Preclassic Old Chinese: ka
Classic Old Chinese: ka
Western Han Chinese: ka
Eastern Han Chinese: ka
Early Postclassic Chinese: ko
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ko
Late Postclassic Chinese: ko
Middle Chinese: kö
English meaning : to stay at, remain, dwell; part
Russian meaning[s]: 1) проживать, жить в...; местожительство; 2) занимать (положение, место); составлять (процент); 3) сидеть; 4) накоплять, придерживать (напр. товар); [jī] 1) какой?, как?; 2) в древних стихах частица без значения для размера стиха
Shuowen gloss: 蹲也.從尸.古聲. [399]
Comments: Also used in a reduplication *ka-ka (Sch.: "perhaps: be unsociable, antisocial"), and also as an expressive particle *ka (with irregular MC reflex: MC kɨ, Mand. jī - perhaps OC *kǝ should be reconstructed?). Viet. cu' may in fact reflect an independent development of PAA *gu 'sit' ( = Tai gɨ: 'be').
Radical: 44
Four-angle index: 1286
Karlgren code: 0049 |c ́-d ́
Vietnamese reading: cu'
Jianchuan Bai: kü2
Dali Bai: kü3
Bijiang Bai: kü2
Shijing occurrences: 12.1_, 26.5, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.4, 31.3
