留 - Mandarin word #5123

留

liú

Traditional: 留

#5123 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

to stay; to leave behind; to keep

Stroke order

留

码mǎ。

Please leave your phone number.

。

He decided to stay here for work.

。

I kept some food for you.

座zuò。

Please leave the seat for the elderly.

封fēng。

He left a letter for me.

留 (liú) covers staying somewhere and leaving something behind, central to 留下 (liú xià) "to remain/leave behind" and 留在 (liú zài) "to stay at".

留下

to stay behind, to remain; to leave (something) behind

留在

to stay at, to remain in

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 留.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 103.