(liú) - to stay, to keep, to leave behind in Mandarin
liúTraditional: 留
Translation
to stay, to keep, to leave behind
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the field radical and a phonetic element, conveying remaining on the land. It means to stay, keep or leave behind.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 田 (field) + 卯 (mǎo, phonetic)
Stroke order
留
Examples
。
Please leave your phone number.
。
He wants to stay here.
。
Mum kept some food for me.
。
Please leave some money for me.
封。
He left a letter behind and left.
留 (liú) means to stay, to keep, to leave behind. 留下 is the common resultative form.
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 留.
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