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Search Terms: *居
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noun
1.
sitting outdoors(archaism)
2.
room that served both as a reception room and as a living room in a Heian-period mansion
See also:寝殿造り
3.
temporary sitting place installed in the garden at the imperial court, used on the occasion of archery or sumo ceremonies
Other readings:
出居【でい】
noun
1.
large-scale play, play with an A-list cast
See also:小芝居
2.
big act, big charade, false display
3.
theatre with a government licence (Edo period)(historical term)
noun
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living apart in the same house, separate lives under the same roof
noun
•
expression
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you must seize every golden opportunity, strike while the iron is hot, when you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price(yojijukugo)
Other readings:
奇貨可居【きかかきょ】
、奇貨居くべし【きかおくべし】
noun, auxillary suru verb
1.
one's daily life
noun
2.
condition, well-being, state of one's health
3.
standing and sitting, movements(orig. meaning)
noun
1.
sky(archaism)
2.
cloud
3.
distant place, high place
4.
imperial court
Other readings:
雲井【くもい】[1]
Notes:
- ateji (phonetic) reading
noun
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summer retreat where monks stay in the same place to study(Buddhist term)
noun
1.
small theatre, kabuki performed in a small theatre
See also:大芝居
2.
little performance, short acted scene, act, routine, skit
noun
1.
monkey show
2.
bad acting, overacting, unconvincing performance, farce, clumsy subterfuge(idiom )
noun, auxillary suru verb
•
inhabiting a region (esp. in China), living in a concentrated community(obscure)
Other readings:
聚居【しゅうきょ】
expression
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noun, auxillary suru verb
1.
retirement from active life
2.
moving out of accommodation, finding a new residence(recent meaning)
noun
•
movements, sitting and standing
Other readings:
起ち居【たちい】
、立居【たちい】
、起居【たちい】[1]
Notes:
- irregular okurigana usage
noun, auxillary suru verb
•
one-person show, one-woman show, one-man show, performing solo, monodrama
Other readings:
独り芝居【ひとりしばい】
noun
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house arrest, being placed in confinement at home(yojijukugo)
noun, auxillary suru verb
1.
house-sitting, house-sitter
See also:留守番
noun
2.
caretaker or keeper (official post in the Edo era)
noun, auxillary suru verb
•
staying at home or indoors, living in seclusion, retirement