liú HSK2

to detain

Variant of .

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

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica