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留

liú

to stay

Phonosemantic compound. 田 represents the meaning and 卯 represents the sound.

Components
卯 sound component

卯  Sound component

mǎo

  

4th terrestrial branch

田 meaning component

田  Meaning component

tián

  

field

Evolution

留 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
留 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
留 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
留 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

留  

liú

stop, halt; stay, detain, keep; to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve

留 (㽞) 

liú

old variant of 留[liú]

Most common words with 留
Freq.
Word
Meaning

留

to retain

留下

to leave behind

保留

to retain

留言

message

留给

to set aside for

Component uses

Meaning component in 5 characters (0 verified)

馏 餾 鎦 镏 籀

Sound component in 13 characters (0 verified)

溜 瘤 榴 遛 馏 餾 鎦 镏 熘 騮 骝 鶹 鹠

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.ru

ljuw

liú

stay, remain


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 87.8103% of movies

333rd most common character in movies

554th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+7559

Shuowen

“畱，止也。从田，丣聲。”


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