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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
old variant of
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
to leave (a message etc) / to retain / to stay / to remain / to keep / to preserve
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
old variant of
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 stay somewhere temporarily / to stop over
HSK 5
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 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 stay for a long time
to set aside / to reserve
remaining / extant
to stay for a while; to sojourn
going or staying
seriously ill and about to die
remainder / fractional part (after the decimal point) / unfinished
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
to stay / to detain
to withdraw (money) and retain it
lit. not even chickens and dogs are spared (idiom) / fig. mass slaughter
to stay / to stop over / to break one's journey
to stay for a long period
when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
retention (medicine)
to incarcerate sb for a violation of administrative law, typically for 10 days or less; administrative detention
Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor
to detain as criminal / criminal detention
to absorb / to take in and retain
residence / to reside
to urge to stay / to detain
to hold nothing back / without reservation
to intercept / interception
to stay / to remain / to linger / (computing) to reside / resident (program etc)


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