新居

Chinese

		new; newly; meso- (chem.)	reside
trad. (新居)		新	居
simp. #(新居)		新	居

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīnjū

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ ㄐㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹ geoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīnjū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ ㄐㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sinjyu
    • Wade–Giles: hsin¹-chü¹
    • Yale: syīn-jyū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinjiu
    • Palladius: синьцзюй (sinʹczjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: san¹ geoi¹
    • Yale: sān gēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹ goey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹ gêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵ kɵy̯⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 故居 新居

Noun

新居

1. new residence; new home (new either as a building or to the resident(s))

Antonyms

• 故居 (gùjū)
• 舊居／旧居 (jiùjū)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
新	居
しん Grade: 2	きょ Grade: 5
on’yomi	kan’on

Etymology

Either from Middle Chinese compound 新居 (MC sin kjo, literally “new + residence”), or coined independently in Japanese of Middle Chinese-derived elements as a compound of 新 (shin, “new”) +‎ 居 (kyo, “residence”).

First cited to a text from 1403.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) し​んきょ [shíꜜǹkyò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕĩŋʲkʲo̞]

Noun

新(しん)居(きょ) • (shinkyo) 

1. [from 1403] a new house, a new home, either one that has been built new or that has been moved into recently

   Antonym: 旧居 (kyūkyo, literally “old residence”)

References

1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN