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Mythic Mandarin

保留 (bǎo liú): meaning and stroke order

保留 (bǎo liú) means to keep, to retain, to have reservations (about sth), to hold back (from saying sth).

保留

Simplified
保留
Traditional
保留 (same form)
Pinyin
bǎo liú

Stroke order of 保留

保

  • Bǎo Bulgaria (abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4])
  • bǎo to defend; to protect; to keep; to guarantee; to ensure
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

留

  • liú old variant of 留[liu2]
  • liú to leave (a message etc); to retain
  • liú old variant of 留[liu2]
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 㽞

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 保留

  1. bǎo liú
    • to keep
    • to retain
    • to have reservations (about sth)
    • to hold back (from saying sth)
    • to put aside for later

Radicals of the characters

保
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 9 strokes · 亻 on the left, 呆 on the right
留
Radical 田 (Kangxi radical 102) · 10 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

保留 in our stories

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  • 聂岚想了想，提出了一个折中的方案：把停车场建在地下，地面上保留早市，顺便把破旧的顶棚修一修。

    Niè Lán xiǎng le xiǎng tíchū le yí gè zhézhōng de fāng'àn bǎ tíngchēchǎng jiàn zài dìxià dìmiàn shàng bǎoliú zǎoshì shùnbiàn bǎ pòjiù de dǐngpéng xiū yì xiū

    Nie Lan thought for a moment and put forward a compromise: build the car park underground, keep the market above ground, and fix its shabby roof while they were at it.

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 保留

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).