畱
liú HSK2

to detain

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approved by Peter Olson · Feb 18, 2022, 10:21 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Feb 18, 2022, 10:21 PM

留

Variant of 留.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

說文解字

《說文》：“畱，止也。从田，丣聲。”

Sources

Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)