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Trad. 鞏留
- 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
Trad. 滯留
- (of a person) to remain in (a place) (due to circumstances that prevent one leaving); to be stranded
- (of sth that would typically dissipate, e.g. floodwater, pollutants) to remain; to linger
Trad. 留別
- a departing gift
- a souvenir on leaving
- a poem to mark one's departure
- to keep a copy
- copy kept for archiving
- to put aside a portion (of a money sum)
- to relent (to spare sb's feelings)
- to show mercy or forgiveness
- to forbear
- lenient
- to join the faculty of one's alma mater upon graduation
- to remain at school during vacation
Trad. 留樣
- retention sample
- (of a manufacturer, esp. of food or drugs) to retain a sample of a batch of a product (abbr. for 保留樣品|保留样品[bao3 liu2 yang4 pin3])
- to leave a message
- to leave some empty space in a work of art
- to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
- to leave in place; to set aside (for further use); to retain
- to detain (a suspect or offender)
- (medicine) indwelling
- to keep
- to retain
- to have reservations (about sth)
- to hold back (from saying sth)
- to put aside for later
Trad. 留針
- to leave an inserted needle in place for a period of time (acupuncture)
Trad. 留飯
- to put some food aside for sb
- to invite sb to stay for a meal
- invitation to dinner
Trad. 駐留
- to stay
- to remain
- to linger
- (computing) to reside
- resident (program etc)
Trad. 志留紀
- Silurian (geological period 440-417m years ago)
Trad. 鞏留縣
- 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
- to deliberately withhold essential knowledge or skills as strategic insurance (typically to maintain leverage, avoid being replaced, or preserve authority in hierarchical relationships)
Trad. 留壩縣
- Liuba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中[Han4 zhong1], Shaanxi
Trad. 留學生
- student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
- Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) (Tw)
- Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
- to capture alive a criminal (or enemy etc) for interrogation
- (of a perpetrator) to let a witness live
- private plot allocated to an individual on a collective farm
Trad. 保留價
- reserve price (in an auction)
- (economics) reservation price
- Rurik (c. 830-879), Varangian chieftain of the Rus' people
Trad. 留餘地
- to leave room to maneuver; to leave a margin for error
Trad. 毫無保留
- to hold nothing back
- without reservation
Trad. 彌留之際
- on one's deathbed
- at the point of death
Trad. 雞犬不留
- lit. not even chickens and dogs are spared (idiom)
- fig. mass slaughter
- cowherb (Vaccaria segetalis)
- cowherb seeds (used in TCM)
- to incarcerate sb for a violation of administrative law, typically for 10 days or less; administrative detention
Trad. 留守兒童
- "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
Trad. 剃髮留辮
- to shave the head but keep the queue
Trad. 留心眼兒
- to be on the alert
- to keep one's eyes open
Trad. 留有餘地
- to leave some leeway
- to allow for the unpredictable
- 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.
Trad. 留職停薪
- (Tw) leave of absence without pay
- a good reputation to last down the generations
- a good reputation to last a hundred generations
Trad. 愛留根納
- Eriugena, John Scottus (c. 810-880) Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher of Neoplatonism
Trad. 留連論詩
- to continue to discuss a poem over a long period
Trad. 保留劇目
- repertory
- repertoire
- repertory item
Trad. 永久居留權
- permanent residency
Trad. 永久居留證
- permanent residency permit
Trad. 高橋留美子
- Takahashi Rumiko, Japanese manga artist
Trad. 阿留申群島
- Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)
- when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
Trad. 半保留複製
- semiconservative replication
Trad. 馬可·奧勒留
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor
Trad. 話到嘴邊留三分
- A still tongue makes a wise head. (idiom)