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留一手
liú​yī​shǒu

to hold something back

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
留一手 liú//yī​shǒu
to hold something back
To deliberately withhold some of one's skills or knowledge instead of showing them all or teaching them to others, often as a strategy to maintain an advantage or as a precaution.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.435 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)