liú
to stay
Phonosemantic compound. 田 represents the meaning and 卯 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 留
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to retain | ||
to leave behind | ||
to retain | ||
message | ||
to set aside for |
Component uses
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。” |
Sources
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