鸟居 Traditional form: 鳥居 Pinyin (reading): niǎojū Definitions: torii (gateway of a Shinto shrine) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鳥居 "torii") Characters: 鸟 - bird 居 - to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit Traditional characters: 鳥 - bird 居 - to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit