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HSK
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
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 keep as a souvenir / to recall fondly
HSK 7-9
to be careful; to pay attention to
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)
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
gramophone / phonograph
to take care / to be careful
HSK 7-9
"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
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
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
(slang) international student; student studying abroad
to leave blank space in a document / to leave some time free
(old) to study abroad / (sports) to train abroad
spearmint
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
guestbook
to leave the door unlocked for sb
nonmigratory bird
to leave one's name / to leave one's mark
to be hospitalized
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
to leave some leeway / to allow for the unpredictable
to leave behind / sb's legacy
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)
extemporaneous thoughts noted down after a visit
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 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
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)
Lingering Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu
to leave loose ends / to leave matters unresolved
(said by departing guest) no need to see me out
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
to leave a message
to set aside for; to keep as
to ask a guest to stay / to detain a guest
to keep a copy / copy kept for archiving / to put aside a portion (of a money sum)
to repeat a year in school
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) (Tw)
to capture alive a criminal (or enemy etc) for interrogation / (of a perpetrator) to let a witness live
a good reputation to last a hundred generations
to remain in the hospital
(TCM) edema; dropsy
a good reputation to last down the generations
to bequeath (to later generations) / a legacy
a departing gift / a souvenir on leaving / a poem to mark one's departure
to repeat a year in school
Liuba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
to continue to discuss a poem over a long period
to leave sth for later / to postpone (work, a decision etc)
to retain a portion (of profits etc)
to put some food aside for sb / to invite sb to stay for a meal / invitation to dinner
the old capital (after a move)
variant of 榴槤果|榴梿果, durian fruit
variant of 劉海|刘海
variant of 流連|流连


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