Leave behind in Chinese
to leave behind · HSK 4
留下
- 留 to stay
- 下 down
他走的时候留下了一封信。 He left a letter behind when he went.
Other ways to say leave behind
More words with 留 or 下
How do you say leave behind in Chinese?
Leave behind in Chinese is 留下 (liú xià). You can also say 落 (là).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.