Chinese Character Wiki

畱

liú

to detain

Variant of 留.

Evolution

畱 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

畱  

liú

to detain; to entertain to keep; to put by

留 (畱) 

liú

old variant of 留[liú]

Most common words with 畱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

留

to retain

留下

to leave behind

保留

to retain

留言

message

留给

to set aside for

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 87.8103% of movies

333rd most common character in movies

554th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7571

Shuowen

“畱，止也。从田，丣聲。”


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