Remain in Chinese
to remain · HSK 4
留
你今晚留在这儿吃饭吧。 Stay here for dinner tonight.
Other ways to say remain
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How do you say remain in Chinese?
Remain in Chinese is 留 (liú). You can also say 剩 (shèng), 停留 (tíng liú), 留下 (liú xià).
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.