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  1. Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Intransitive verb

    to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest

    see 住む

    コロンブスがアメリカ大陸を発見したとき、バイソン（アメリカ野牛）は、広大な地域に棲んでいた。
    When Columbus discovered America, bison (American buffalo) inhabited a wide-ranging area.

Also written 栖む【すむ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
棲
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

live, dwell

Kun
す.む
On
セイ
Strokes
12
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
木 tree

Built from

女木ヨ十

Used in names as

ずみ

Words starting with 棲Words ending in 棲Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
1-4-8SKIP code
4a8.16The Kanji Dictionary
4594.4Four corner code
68f2Unicode hex code
1-32-19JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2297Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2743New Nelson (John Haig)
989New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1246Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
902Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2496Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2559Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
14980Morohashi
qi1, xi1Pinyin reading
seoKorean reading