HSK 2 · Meeting & staying

留

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to stay; to keep

Stroke order of 留

留 is written with 10 strokes. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

Memory trick

Fields 田 and a knife-like 刀 on top: the farmer stays to keep his land.

Parts: 留: 卯 + 田 field

Example sentence

请你留在这儿。

Please stay here.

Words with 留

留学生international student 留下to stay; to leave behind 留学to study abroad 保留to keep; to retain

More words: Meeting & staying

见到to see; to meet 见过to have seen 碰到to run into 碰见to run into 留下to stay; to leave behind 分开to separate 占to occupy; to take up 流to flow 气air; to anger 长to grow; head; chief 当to act as; when 才only then; just 提出to put forward 提到to mention 行动action; to act 行为behaviour

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