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HSK
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
to leave behind / to stay behind / to remain / to keep / not to let (sb) go
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
to leave (a message etc) / to retain / to stay / to remain / to keep / to preserve
HSK 2
to stay somewhere temporarily / to stop over
HSK 5
student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
HSK 2
to study abroad
HSK 3
to leave a message; to leave one's comments / message
HSK 6
to urge to stay / to detain
to detain as criminal / criminal detention
to keep as a souvenir / to recall fondly
HSK 7-9
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 be careful; to pay attention to
HSK 7-9
to remain; to be left over / residual; remnant / residue
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 deliberately withhold essential knowledge or skills as strategic insurance (typically to maintain leverage, avoid being replaced, or preserve authority in hierarchical relationships)
to ask sb to stay / to keep sb for the night / to await (classical)
to detain (as a prisoner); to keep sb in custody
HSK 7-9
to show no quarter / ruthless / relentless
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
to incarcerate sb for a violation of administrative law, typically for 10 days or less; administrative detention
gramophone / phonograph
to take care / to be careful
HSK 7-9
leave of absence without pay
"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
residence permit
to be mindful / to pay attention to / to take note of
HSK 7-9
to stay behind to take care of things
to make sth difficult / to create obstacles
reservation (for an ethnic minority)
to remain in existence / to retain
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
old variant of
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
old variant of
HSK 2
right of abode (law)
permanent residency
to detain / to arrest / to hold / to confiscate
HSK 7-9
to offer shelter; to have sb in one's care
HSK 7-9
to leave behind / to hand down
HSK 7-9
(slang) international student; student studying abroad
Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor
to leave blank space in a document / to leave some time free
(old) to study abroad / (sports) to train abroad
spearmint
on one's deathbed / at the point of death
permanent residency permit
to stay / to stop over / to break one's journey
remnant / residue / material left over
hilly land allotted for private use
to put up a guest / to stay overnight
to relent (to spare sb's feelings) / to show mercy or forgiveness / to forbear / lenient
to keep for use / to retain sth / to keep sb in his job
to keep stationed (of troops) / to remain as a garrison
to set aside for
to absorb / to take in and retain
guestbook
to leave the door unlocked for sb
nonmigratory bird
to leave one's name / to leave one's mark
to be hospitalized
seriously ill and about to die
to stay for a while; to sojourn
reserve price (in an auction) / (economics) reservation price
when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
to join the faculty of one's alma mater upon graduation / to remain at school during vacation
to leave room to maneuver; to leave a margin for error
A still tongue makes a wise head. (idiom)
to leave some leeway / to allow for the unpredictable
to leave behind / sb's legacy
detention center / prison
to leave oneself a way out
reluctant to leave / to hate to have to go / to recall fondly
HSK 7-9
to be on the alert / to keep one's eyes open
to remain in office; to hold on to one's job
Liuba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
to take a photo as a souvenir / a souvenir photo
to keep an official position / to hold on to one's job
to leave an inserted needle in place for a period of time (acupuncture)
remainder / fractional part (after the decimal point) / unfinished
extemporaneous thoughts noted down after a visit
China Scholarship Council (CSC)
to keep / to preserve / extant / to remain (from the past)
retained earnings
(medicine) to remain in hospital under observation
visitor's book / CL:
to stay / to detain
Ilyushin, Russian plane maker
to stay behind (after class) / to be given detention / detention
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)
Rurik (c. 830-879), Varangian chieftain of the Rus' people
private plot allocated to an individual on a collective farm
unfinished business
retention sample / (of a manufacturer, esp. of food or drugs) to retain a sample of a batch of a product (abbr. for 保留樣品|保留样品)
to shave the head but keep the queue
to stay for a long period
Lingering Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu
to leave loose ends / to leave matters unresolved
(said by departing guest) no need to see me out
going or staying
to keep a seed stock / seed held back for planting
to leave in place; to set aside (for further use); to retain / to detain (a suspect or offender) / (medicine) indwelling
(Tw) leave of absence without pay

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