留

See also 畱, and 畄

Translingual

Etymology

Simplified from 畱 (戼 → 卯), from Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 丣 + semantic 田 (“field”) – to stay to tend the field.

Han character

留 (radical 102 田+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹田 (HHW), four-corner 7760₂)

1. stop, halt
2. stay, detain, keep

Derived characters

• 溜 瘤 霤 餾 (馏)

Descendants

• る

References

• KangXi: page 761, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21808
• Dae Jaweon: page 1171, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2537, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7559

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Cantonese

Hanzi

留 (Yale lau4)

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Japanese

Kanji

留 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: りゅう (ryū), る (ru)
• Kun: とめる (tomeru), とどまる (todomaru), とまる (tomaru)

Compounds

• 留意
• 留守
• 留任
• 留年
• 留学
• 保留

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Korean

Hanja

留 (hangeul 류>유, revised ryu>yu, McCune-Reischauer ryu>yu, Yale lyu>yu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

留 (pinyin liú (liu2), Wade-Giles liu²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

留 (* liou)

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Vietnamese

Han character

留 (lưu)