同居

Chinese

		like; same; similar like; same; similar; together; alike; with	reside
simp. and trad. (同居)		同	居

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóngjū

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄐㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴ geoi¹
• Gan (Wiktionary): tung² 'jy¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): dùng-gṳ̆
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tông-ku / tông-kir / tông-ki

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóngjū
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄐㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóngjyu
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung²-chü¹
    • Yale: túng-jyū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torngjiu
    • Palladius: тунцзюй (tunczjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung⁴ geoi¹
    • Yale: tùhng gēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴ goey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴ gêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹ kɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: tung² 'jy¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰuŋ²⁴ ˈt͡ɕy⁴²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dùng-gṳ̆
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ^(k-)ŋy⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông-ku
    • Tâi-lô: tông-ku
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dongkw
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ ku⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² ku⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông-kir
    • Tâi-lô: tông-kir
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² kɯ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông-ki
    • Tâi-lô: tông-ki
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dongky
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ²³⁻³³ ki⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ¹³⁻²² ki⁴⁴/

Verb

同居

1. to live together; to cohabitate; to cohabit

Usage notes

Can refer to both friends or family living together, and couples, married or unmarried.

Antonyms

• 獨居／独居 (dújū)

Derived terms

• 同居人
• 同居各爨

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (同居):

• → Japanese: 同居(どうきょ) (dōkyo)
• → Korean: 동거(同居) (donggeo)
• → Vietnamese: đồng cư (同居)

Noun

同居

1. (Eastern Min) neighbour

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鄰居 (“neighbor”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		鄰
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鄰居, 鄰舍, 鄰家, 左鄰右舍
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	街坊, 隔壁兒, 鄰居
	Taiwan	鄰居, 街坊
	Malaysia	鄰居
	Singapore	鄰居
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	街坊, 鄰舍, 鄰舍家
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	鄰家, 隔壁子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	隔壁鄰舍, 隔壁子
	Wuhan	街坊
	Guilin	鄰居
	Mae Salong (Lancang)	隔壁鄰居
	Mae Sai (Tengchong)	鄰居
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	鄰居
	Hefei	鄰居, 鄰家
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鄰居, 隔籬鄰舍, 鄰舍, 隔籬, 街坊
	Hong Kong	鄰居, 隔籬鄰舍, 隔籬屋, 隔籬, 街坊
	Hong Kong (San Tin; Weitou)	隔籬鄰舍
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	隔籬屋
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	隔籬屋
	Taishan	隔籬, 上屋, 下屋, 街坊
	Kaiping (Chikan)	隔籬鄰舍
	Yangjiang	隔籬屋
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	隔籬鄰舍
	Singapore (Guangfu)	隔籬鄰舍, 隔籬, 街坊
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	街坊
Gan	Nanchang	鄰舍
Hakka	Meixian	鄰舍
	Huiyang	鄰舍, 隔籬鄰舍
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	鄰舍
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	鄰舍
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	鄰舍
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	鄰舍
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	鄰舍
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	鄰舍
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	鄰舍
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	隔壁鄰舍, 鄰舍
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	隔壁鄰舍, 鄰舍
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	隔壁鄰舍, 鄰舍
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	鄰舍
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	屋邊頭尾, 屋邊
	Hong Kong	鄰舍, 隔籬鄰舍
	Senai (Huiyang)	鄰舍
Jin	Taiyuan	鄰居, 鄰家, 隔壁子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	厝邊, 厝邊仙
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	厝邊, 同居, 同厝
Southern Min	Xiamen	厝邊, 厝邊跤兜, 厝邊頭尾, 隔壁
	Quanzhou	厝邊, 厝邊跤兜, 厝邊頭尾, 隔壁
	Jinjiang	厝邊
	Zhangzhou	厝邊, 厝邊跤兜, 厝邊頭尾, 隔壁
	Zhao'an	厝邊仔
	Taipei	厝邊, 隔壁
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	厝邊, 隔壁, 厝邊隔壁
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	隔壁
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	厝邊, 隔壁
	Kaohsiung	厝邊, 隔壁
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	厝邊, 隔壁
	Kaohsiung (Hongmaogang, Siaogang)	厝邊, 隔壁
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	厝邊, 隔壁, 厝邊隔壁
	Kaohsiung (Tianliao)	厝邊, 隔壁
	Yilan	厝邊, 隔壁
	Yilan (Luodong)	厝邊, 厝邊仔, 隔壁
	Yilan (Toucheng)	厝邊, 厝邊仔, 隔壁
	Changhua (Lukang)	厝邊, 隔壁
	Changhua (Yongjing)	厝邊, 隔壁, 厝邊頭尾
	Taichung	厝邊, 厝邊隔壁, 厝邊頭尾
	Tainan	厝邊, 隔壁
	Tainan (Anping)	厝邊, 隔壁, 厝邊頭尾
	Hsinchu	厝邊, 隔壁
	Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng)	厝邊, 隔壁
	Kinmen	隔壁
	Penghu (Magong)	隔壁
	Penghu (Xiyu)	厝邊, 隔壁
	Penang (Hokkien)	隔壁
	Singapore (Hokkien)	厝邊, 厝邊頭尾
	Manila (Hokkien)	厝邊, 隔壁
	Chaozhou	厝邊, 厝邊頭尾
	Shantou	厝邊, 厝邊頭尾
	Jieyang	厝邊, 厝邊頭尾
	Haifeng	厝邊, 厝邊頭尾
	Ho Chi Minh City (Teochew)	厝邊
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	厝邊
	Singapore (Teochew)	厝邊, 厝邊頭尾
	Pontianak (Teochew)	厝邊
	Wenchang	厝墘
	Haikou	厝墘儂, 厝邊儂
	Singapore (Hainanese)	厝墘
Puxian Min	Putian	厝邊司, 隔壁厝, 厝邊, 厝邊隔壁
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	厝邊司, 隔壁厝
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	厝邊司, 隔壁厝
	Xianyou	厝邊司, 隔壁主, 厝邊, 厝邊隔壁
	Xianyou (Fengting)	厝邊司, 隔壁主
	Xianyou (Youyang)	厝邊司
Wu	Shanghai	鄰舍, 鄰居, 隔壁鄰舍, 鄰舍隔壁, 街坊, 鄉鄰 dated
	Suzhou	鄉鄰
	Hangzhou (Yuhang)	鄰舍
	Wenzhou	鄰舍
Xiang	Changsha	鄰舍
	Shuangfeng	鄰舍

Japanese

Kanji in this term
同	居
どう Grade: 2	きょ Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) どーきょ [dòókyó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [do̞ːkʲo̞]

Noun

同(どう)居(きょ) • (dōkyo) 

1. coresidence

Verb

同(どう)居(きょ)する • (dōkyo suru) intransitive suru (stem 同(どう)居(きょ)し (dōkyo shi), past 同(どう)居(きょ)した (dōkyo shita))

1. to live together
   • 2018 May 18, 浜口誠, quotee, “第196回国会　参議院　本会議　第20号　平成30年5月18日”, in 国会会議録検索システム‎^[1], 国立国会図書館:

     八十代の親と未婚で無職の五十代の子が同居しているケースは、八〇五〇問題とも呼ばれています。

     Hachi jū-dai no oya to mikon de mushoku no go jū-dai no ko ga dōkyo shite iru kēsu wa, hachi maru gō maru mondai to mo yobarete i-masu.

     The phenomenon of a parent in their eighties living with their unmarried, unemployed child in their fifties is also known as the "8050 problem."

Conjugation

Conjugation of "同居する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	同居し	どうきょし	dōkyo shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	同居し	どうきょし	dōkyo shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	同居する	どうきょする	dōkyo suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	同居する	どうきょする	dōkyo suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	同居すれ	どうきょすれ	dōkyo sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	同居せよ¹ 同居しろ²	どうきょせよ¹ どうきょしろ²	dōkyo seyo¹ dōkyo shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	同居される	どうきょされる	dōkyo sareru
Causative	同居させる 同居さす	どうきょさせる どうきょさす	dōkyo saseru dōkyo sasu
Potential	同居できる	どうきょできる	dōkyo dekiru
Volitional	同居しよう	どうきょしよう	dōkyo shiyō
Negative	同居しない	どうきょしない	dōkyo shinai
Negative continuative	同居せず	どうきょせず	dōkyo sezu
Formal	同居します	どうきょします	dōkyo shimasu
Perfective	同居した	どうきょした	dōkyo shita
Conjunctive	同居して	どうきょして	dōkyo shite
Hypothetical conditional	同居すれば	どうきょすれば	dōkyo sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

• “同居”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
同	居

Noun

同居 • (donggeo) (hangeul 동거)

1. hanja form^? of 동거 (“cohabitation”)