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保留

bǎo liú 3–2

to keep; to retain; to have reservations (about sth); to hold back (from saying sth); to put aside for later

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
保 · 留
Syllables
2
bǎo liú
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 2,921

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 保bǎo9 strokesHSK 3protect, safeguard, defend, care
  • 留liú10 strokesHSK 2stop, halt; stay, detain, keep

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 保留. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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