| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 留 | 㽞 | liú | - old variant of 留[liu2] |
| 留 | 留 | liú | - to leave (a message etc) - to retain - to stay - to remain - to keep - to preserve |
| 留 | 畱 | liú | - old variant of 留[liu2] |
| 久留 | 久留 | jiǔliú | - to stay for a long time |
| 保留 | 保留 | bǎoliú | - to retain - to continue to have - to preserve - to maintain - to reserve - reservations - to hold back (approval or acceptance) |
| 停留 | 停留 | tíngliú | - to stay somewhere temporarily - to stop over |
| 勾留 | 勾留 | gōuliú | - to stay - to stop over - to break one's journey |
| 去留 | 去留 | qùliú | - going or staying |
| 吸留 | 吸留 | xīliú | - to absorb - to take in and retain |
| 存留 | 存留 | cúnliú | - remaining - extant |
| 居留 | 居留 | jūliú | - residence - to reside |
| 屯留 | 屯留 | Túnliú | - Tunliu county in Changzhi 長治|长治[Chang2 zhi4], Shanxi |
| 弥留 | 彌留 | míliú | - seriously ill and about to die |
| 扣留 | 扣留 | kòuliú | - to detain - to arrest - to hold - to confiscate |
| 拘留 | 拘留 | jūliú | - to detain (a prisoner) - to keep sb in custody |
| 挽留 | 挽留 | wǎnliú | - to urge to stay - to detain |
| 提留 | 提留 | tíliú | - to withdraw (money) and retain it |
| 收留 | 收留 | shōuliú | - to offer shelter - to have sb in one's care |
| 残留 | 殘留 | cánliú | - to remain - left over - surplus - remnant |
| 淹留 | 淹留 | yānliú | - to stay for a long period |
| 滞留 | 滯留 | zhìliú | - to detain - retention |
| 潴留 | 瀦留 | zhūliú | - retention (medicine) |
| 留下 | 留下 | liúxià | - to leave behind - to stay behind - to remain - to keep - not to let (sb) go |
| 留任 | 留任 | liúrèn | - to remain in office - to hold on to one's job |
| 留住 | 留住 | liúzhù | - to ask sb to stay - to keep sb for the night - to await (classical) |
| 留作 | 留作 | liúzuò | - to set aside for - to keep as |
| 留传 | 留傳 | liúchuán | - a legacy - to bequeath (to later generations) |
| 留别 | 留別 | liúbié | - a departing gift - a souvenir on leaving - a poem to mark one's departure |
| 留园 | 留園 | LiúYuán | - Lingering Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu |
| 留堂 | 留堂 | liútáng | - to stay behind (after class) - to be given detention - detention |
| 留坝 | 留壩 | Liúbà | - Liuba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中[Han4 zhong1], Shaanxi |
| 留存 | 留存 | liúcún | - to keep - to preserve - extant - to remain (from the past) |
| 留学 | 留學 | liúxué | - to study abroad |
| 留守 | 留守 | liúshǒu | - to stay behind to take care of things |
| 留客 | 留客 | liúkè | - to ask a guest to stay - to detain a guest |
| 留宿 | 留宿 | liúsù | - to put up a guest - to stay overnight |
| 留影 | 留影 | liúyǐng | - to take photos as a souvenir - a souvenir photo |
| 留待 | 留待 | liúdài | - to leave sth for later - to postpone (work, a decision etc) |
| 留心 | 留心 | liúxīn | - to be careful - to pay attention to |
| 留念 | 留念 | liúniàn | - to keep as a souvenir - to recall fondly |
| 留情 | 留情 | liúqíng | - to relent (to spare sb's feelings) - to show mercy or forgiveness - to forbear - lenient |
| 留意 | 留意 | liúyì | - to be mindful - to pay attention to - to take note of |
| 留恋 | 留戀 | liúliàn | - reluctant to leave - to hate to have to go - to recall fondly |
| 留成 | 留成 | liúchéng | - a retained portion (of a sum of money) - to hold back a percentage (of the takings) |
| 留校 | 留校 | liúxiào | - to join the faculty of one's alma mater upon graduation - to remain at school during vacation |
| 留步 | 留步 | liúbù | - (said by departing guest) no need to see me out |
| 留洋 | 留洋 | liúyáng | - to study abroad (old term) - same as 留學|留学 |
| 留海 | 留海 | liúhǎi | - see 劉海|刘海[liu2 hai3] |
| 留班 | 留班 | liúbān | - to repeat a year (in school) - to resit a failed course - to fail admission to next year's course |
| 留用 | 留用 | liúyòng | - to continue in employment - to hold on to one's job - to continue using |
| 留白 | 留白 | liúbái | - to leave a message |
| 留神 | 留神 | liúshén | - to take care - to be careful |
| 留种 | 留種 | liúzhǒng | - to keep a seed stock - seed held back for planting |
| 留空 | 留空 | liúkōng | - leave blank spaces in writing |
| 留级 | 留級 | liújí | - to repeat a year (in school) - to resit a failed course - to fail admission to next year's course |
| 留给 | 留給 | liúgěi | - to set aside for |
| 留置 | 留置 | liúzhì | - to retain one's job |
| 留职 | 留職 | liúzhí | - to keep an official position - to hold on to one's job |
| 留言 | 留言 | liúyán | - to leave a message - to leave one's comments - message |
| 留话 | 留話 | liúhuà | - to leave word - to leave a message |
| 留连 | 留連 | liúlián | - variant of 流連|流连[liu2 lian2] |
| 留遗 | 留遺 | liúyí | - to leave behind - sb's legacy |
| 留都 | 留都 | liúdū | - the old capital (after a move) |
| 留医 | 留醫 | liúyī | - to be hospitalized |
| 留针 | 留針 | liúzhēn | - to leave an inserted needle in place for a period of time (acupuncture) |
| 留门 | 留門 | liúmén | - to leave the door unlocked for sb |
| 留难 | 留難 | liúnàn | - to make sth difficult - to create obstacles |
| 留题 | 留題 | liútí | - extemporaneous thoughts noted down after a visit |
| 留饭 | 留飯 | liúfàn | - to stay for a meal - food kept for sb |
| 留饮 | 留飲 | liúyǐn | - edema (accumulation of interstitial fluids in internal organs) - dropsy |
| 留驻 | 留駐 | liúzhù | - to keep stationed (of troops) - to remain as a garrison |
| 留鸟 | 留鳥 | liúniǎo | - nonmigratory bird |
| 羁留 | 羈留 | jīliú | - to stay - to detain |
| 逗留 | 逗留 | dòuliú | - to stay at - to stop over |
| 遗留 | 遺留 | yíliú | - to leave behind - to hand down |
| 阻留 | 阻留 | zǔliú | - to intercept - interception |
| 巩留 | 鞏留 | Gǒngliú | - 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[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang |
| 预留 | 預留 | yùliú | - to set aside - to reserve |
| 余留 | 餘留 | yúliú | - remainder - fractional part (after the decimal point) - unfinished |
| 伊留申 | 伊留申 | Yīliúshēn | - Ilyushin, Russian plane maker |
| 保留区 | 保留區 | bǎoliúqū | - reservation (for an ethnic minority) |
| 居留权 | 居留權 | jūliúquán | - right of abode (law) |
| 居留证 | 居留證 | jūliúzhèng | - residence permit |
| 屯留县 | 屯留縣 | Túnliúxiàn | - Tunliu county in Changzhi 長治|长治[Chang2 zhi4], Shanxi |
| 志留系 | 志留系 | Zhìliúxì | - Silurian system (geology) - see 志留紀|志留纪 |
| 志留纪 | 志留紀 | Zhìliújì | - Silurian (geological period 440-417m years ago) |
| 拘留所 | 拘留所 | jūliúsuǒ | - detention center - prison |
| 收留所 | 收留所 | shōuliúsuǒ | - barrack |
| 残留物 | 殘留物 | cánliúwù | - remnant - residue - material left over |
| 滞留锋 | 滯留鋒 | zhìliúfēng | - stationary front (meteorology) |
| 无保留 | 無保留 | wúbǎoliú | - without reservation - not holding anything back - unconditional |
| 留一手 | 留一手 | liúyīshǒu | - to hold back a trick - not to divulge all one's trade secrets |
| 留坝县 | 留壩縣 | LiúbàXiàn | - Liuba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中[Han4 zhong1], Shaanxi |
| 留学生 | 留學生 | liúxuéshēng | - student studying abroad - (foreign) exchange student - CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] |
| 留尼汪 | 留尼汪 | Liúníwāng | - Réunion (Island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) |
| 留尾巴 | 留尾巴 | liúwěiba | - to leave loose ends - to leave matters unresolved |
| 留后路 | 留後路 | liúhòulù | - to leave oneself a way out |
| 留成儿 | 留成兒 | liúchéngr | - a retained portion (of a sum of money) - to hold back a percentage (of the takings) |
| 留声机 | 留聲機 | liúshēngjī | - gramophone - phonograph |
| 留兰香 | 留蘭香 | liúlánxiāng | - mint - spearmint |
| 留言本 | 留言本 | liúyánběn | - guestbook |
| 留言簿 | 留言簿 | liúyánbù | - visitor's book - CL:本[ben3] |
| 留连果 | 留連果 | liúliánguǒ | - variant of 榴槤果|榴梿果, durian fruit |
| 留余地 | 留餘地 | liúyúdì | - to leave room to maneuver - to leave a margin for error |
| 自留地 | 自留地 | zìliúdì | - private plot allocated to an individual on a collective farm |
| 卫留成 | 衛留成 | WèiLiúchéng | - Wei Liucheng (1946-), fifth governor of Hainan |
| 巩留县 | 鞏留縣 | Gǒngliúxiàn | - 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[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang |
| 保留剧目 | 保留劇目 | bǎoliújùmù | - repertory - stock (in theater) |
| 刑事拘留 | 刑事拘留 | xíngshìjūliú | - to detain as criminal - criminal detention |
| 剃发留辫 | 剃髮留辮 | tìfàliúbiàn | - to shave the head but keep the queue |
| 弥留之际 | 彌留之際 | míliúzhījì | - on one's deathbed - at the point of death |
| 爱留根纳 | 愛留根納 | Àiliúgēnnà | - Eriugena, John Scottus (c. 810-880) Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher of Neoplatonism |
| 手下留情 | 手下留情 | shǒuxiàliúqíng | - 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. |
| 毫不留情 | 毫不留情 | háobùliúqíng | - to show no quarter - ruthless - relentless |
| 王不留行 | 王不留行 | wángbùliúxíng | - cowherb (Vaccaria segetalis) - cowherb seeds (used in TCM) |
| 留存收益 | 留存收益 | liúcúnshōuyì | - retained earnings |
| 留守儿童 | 留守兒童 | liúshǒuértóng | - "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 |
| 留有余地 | 留有餘地 | liúyǒuyúdì | - to leave some leeway - to allow for the unpredictable |
| 留芳千古 | 留芳千古 | liúfāngqiāngǔ | - a good reputation to last down the generations |
| 留芳百世 | 留芳百世 | liúfāngbǎishì | - a good reputation to last a hundred generations |
| 留军壁邺 | 留軍壁鄴 | liújūnbìyè | - troops remaining stationed in Ye - fig. a hardship posting |
| 留连论诗 | 留連論詩 | liúliánlùnshī | - to continue to discuss a poem over a long period |
| 余留事务 | 餘留事務 | yúliúshìwù | - unfinished business |
| 驻留时间 | 駐留時間 | zhùliúshíjiān | - gaze duration |
| 半保留复制 | 半保留複製 | bànbǎoliúfùzhì | - semiconservative replication |
| 女大不中留 | 女大不中留 | nǚdàbùzhōngliú | - when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom) |
| 阿留申群岛 | 阿留申群島 | ĀliúshēnQúndǎo | - Aleutian islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka) |
| 高桥留美子 | 高橋留美子 | GāoqiáoLiúměizǐ | - Takahashi Rumiko, Japanese manga artist |
| 火场留守分队 | 火場留守分隊 | huǒchǎngliúshǒufēnduì | - detachment left to provide covering fire |
| 余留无符号数 | 餘留無符號數 | yúliúwúfúhàoshù | - unsigned remainder (i.e. the remainder after rounding to the nearest integer) |
| 马可・奥勒留 | 馬可・奧勒留 | Mǎkě·Àolēiliú | - Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor |
| 话到嘴边留三分 | 話到嘴邊留三分 | huàdàozuǐbiānliúsānfēn | - A still tongue makes a wise head. (idiom) |
| 国家留学基金管理委员会 | 國家留學基金管理委員會 | GuójiāLiúxuéJījīnGuǎnlǐWěiyuánhuì | - China Scholarship Council (CSC) |
| 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧 | 留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒 | liúdeqīngshānzài,bùpàméicháishāo | - While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope. |
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