舍

• Residential/Spatial: Temporary lodging (inn, hostel, waystation), institutional housing (barracks, dormitories).
• Action of Residing: To lodge, stay overnight, or stop over.
• Relinquishment: To discard an object, relinquish a claim, abandon a plan, or sacrifice something for a higher purpose.
• Clemency: To spare, pardon, or grant mercy.

• Noun: Functions as the object or location of residence.
• Verb (Location): Transitive; takes the place of lodging as its object.
• Verb (Relinquishment): Transitive; takes the thing abandoned, sacrificed, or spared as its object.

• vs. 住 (zhù): While both relate to residing, 舍 typically denotes temporary or functional shelter, whereas 住 implies a more permanent residence.
• Semantic Split: In early strata, this glyph encompasses both "dwelling" and "abandoning." The latter sense was later separated into the distinct character 捨.

• Variants: U+6368 and U+820D are formal variants; they do not signal a shift in meaning or lexical category.

If the "dwelling" sense is contextually impossible, the translator should immediately consider the "abandon/relinquish" sense.