to perch / to rest (of birds) / to dwell / to live / to stay

栖 character breakdown

surname Mu
tree / wood / coffin / wooden / simple / numb / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree. Malte Monkey is putting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He's using a cross (十) as a base to put the tree on, and decorates the tree with eight-balls (八).
the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] / Spanish

西 = + : The wild west is largely recognized by the symbol of the cowboy hat.

西 = + : Marie Curie has gone crazy from the loneliness in space. In front of the space station, she sits inside of a large wooden box, wearing a cowboy hat and playing a 胡兀尔 fiddle, thinking that she's participating in a square dance in the wild west.
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

Characters with 栖 as component

栖 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 栖

(of a bird) to perch / (of creatures in general) to inhabit / to dwell
amphibious / dual-talented / able to work in two different lines
amphibian / amphibious animals
Wuqi or Wuci Town in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[Tai2 zhong1 Xian4], Taiwan
Wuqi or Wuci Town in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[Tai2 zhong1 Xian4], Taiwan
to dwell / to live
class Amphibia / amphibians
roost / perch
Xixia, county-level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong
Qixia District of Nanjing City 南京市 in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏
Xixia, county-level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong
arboreal / tree-dwelling
aquatic / living in water
a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb) / fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity
terrestrial / living on land

Sentences with 栖

栖 currently does not appear in any sentence.