Kanji 住

音読おんよみ: ジュウ

訓読くんよみ: すむ・すまう

画数かくすう: 7

部首ぶしゅ: にんべん（亻）

Meaning

Live / Reside / Dwell

  • Basic forms
  • 住む — to live / base form
  • 住みます — polite / I live / masu form
  • 住んだ — past / lived / ta form
  • 住んで — te-form / live (and …) / linking or request
  • 住まない — negative / don’t live / negative form
  • 住めば — if I live / conditional
  • 住め — live! / imperative
  • Other common forms
  • 住みたい — want to live / 〜たい form
  • 住める — can live / be able to live / potential
  • 住まなかった — didn’t live / past negative
  • More
  • 住もう — let’s live / 〜よう form
  • 住んでいる — living / reside / progressive / state
住む (すむ) is a godan (う-verb) meaning “to live” or “to reside.” It’s often used with the particle に — as in 東京に住んでいます (“I live in Tokyo”). The て-form 住んで expresses current state rather than action, describing where one resides.
  • 住所じゅうしょ — address
  • 住民じゅうみん — resident
  • 住職じゅうしょく — chief priest (at a temple)
  • 永住えいじゅう — permanent residence
  • 住居じゅうきょ — dwelling, residence
  • 住宅じゅうたく — housing, residence
More examples - tap to expand
  • 安住あんじゅう — living in peace
  • 居住きょじゅう — inhabiting, residing
  • 定住ていじゅう — settlement, permanent living
Compound Verbs - tap to expand
  • 住すみ着つく — to settle down; to take up residence
  • 住すみ慣なれる — to get used to living in
  • 移うつり住すむ — to move and live in; to relocate

住 combines the person radical (亻) with 主 (master) — showing a person taking root or settling in a place as their own. It is closely linked to long-term presence or residency.

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