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居室

Mandarin · pinyin jū shì

room
apartment

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居: jū · live, dwell, reside, sit
室: shì · room, home, house, chamber; 13th lunar mansion, determinative star α Pegasi (Markab)

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1–4 · ju1 shi4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

geoi1 sat1

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noun

room (in a house), especially a bedroom
residence; dwelling; house

verb

(literary, of husband and wife) to live together

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