crouch

To sit  on one's feet  also provides the pronunciation

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

居 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

live

Evolution

踞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
踞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

crouch, squat; sit, occupy; to be based upon; to squat

Most common words with 踞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

盘踞

to occupy illegally

雄踞

to be perched high

to squat

虎踞龙盘

lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain

蹲踞

squat