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HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
to leave (a message etc) / to retain / to stay / to remain / to keep / to preserve
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
old variant of
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
old variant of
HSK 2
student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
HSK 2
to leave behind / to stay behind / to remain / to keep / not to let (sb) go
HSK 2
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
to study abroad
HSK 3
to stay somewhere temporarily / to stop over
HSK 5
to leave a message; to leave one's comments / message
HSK 6
to remain; to be left over / residual; remnant / residue
HSK 7-9
to detain (a prisoner) / to keep sb in custody
HSK 7-9
to leave behind / to hand down
HSK 7-9
to offer shelter; to have sb in one's care
HSK 7-9
to be careful; to pay attention to
HSK 7-9
to be mindful / to pay attention to / to take note of
HSK 7-9
to detain / to arrest / to hold / to confiscate
HSK 7-9
(of a person) to remain in (a place) (due to circumstances that prevent one leaving); to be stranded / (of sth that would typically dissipate, e.g. floodwater, pollutants) to remain; to linger
HSK 7-9
to keep as a souvenir / to recall fondly
HSK 7-9
reluctant to leave / to hate to have to go / to recall fondly
HSK 7-9
to take care / to be careful
HSK 7-9
to stay behind to take care of things
to stay for a long time
to keep / to preserve / extant / to remain (from the past)
to leave in place; to set aside (for further use); to retain / to detain (a suspect or offender) / (medicine) indwelling
to leave a message / to leave some empty space in a work of art / to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
(said by departing guest) no need to see me out
to set aside for
residence / to reside
to set aside / to reserve
Lingering Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu
to urge to stay / to detain
to leave the door unlocked for sb
remaining / extant
retention (medicine)
to stay for a while; to sojourn
to take a photo as a souvenir / a souvenir photo
gramophone / phonograph
going or staying
Liuba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
to join the faculty of one's alma mater upon graduation / to remain at school during vacation
to put up a guest / to stay overnight
to ask sb to stay / to keep sb for the night / to await (classical)
to leave one's name / to leave one's mark
seriously ill and about to die
(old) to study abroad / (sports) to train abroad
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
a departing gift / a souvenir on leaving / a poem to mark one's departure
to keep an official position / to hold on to one's job
to leave blank space in a document / to leave some time free
to keep for use / to retain sth / to keep sb in his job
to relent (to spare sb's feelings) / to show mercy or forgiveness / to forbear / lenient
to show no quarter / ruthless / relentless
lit. start off leniently (idiom); please do not be too strict with me / Do not judge me too harshly. / Look favorably on my humble efforts.
to bequeath (to later generations) / a legacy
to ask a guest to stay / to detain a guest
to leave some leeway / to allow for the unpredictable
private plot allocated to an individual on a collective farm
to remain in office; to hold on to one's job
to leave sth for later / to postpone (work, a decision etc)
remainder / fractional part (after the decimal point) / unfinished
to keep a copy / copy kept for archiving / to put aside a portion (of a money sum)
cowherb (Vaccaria segetalis) / cowherb seeds (used in TCM)
to repeat a year in school
to retain a portion (of profits etc)
to hold back a trick / not to divulge all one's trade secrets
to keep a seed stock / seed held back for planting
Gongliu County or Toqquztara nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
nonmigratory bird
lit. not even chickens and dogs are spared (idiom) / fig. mass slaughter
to stay / to detain
to make sth difficult / to create obstacles
spearmint
to keep stationed (of troops) / to remain as a garrison
to withdraw (money) and retain it
to leave an inserted needle in place for a period of time (acupuncture)
variant of 流連|流连
to stay / to stop over / to break one's journey
(slang) international student; student studying abroad
to stay for a long period
remnant / residue / material left over
when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
"left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them
visitor's book / CL:
retained earnings
(medicine) to remain in hospital under observation
right of abode (law)
to set aside for; to keep as
to stay behind (after class) / to be given detention / detention
to leave room to maneuver; to leave a margin for error
hilly land allotted for private use
to incarcerate sb for a violation of administrative law, typically for 10 days or less; administrative detention
repertory / repertoire / repertory item
permanent residency
to leave loose ends / to leave matters unresolved
Gongliu County or Toqquztara nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
leave of absence without pay
residence permit
Silurian (geological period 440-417m years ago)
detention center / prison
reserve price (in an auction) / (economics) reservation price

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