The 留 family
留 · liú · ㄌㄧㄡˊ — to leave (a message etc)
Know 留 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 溜、瘤、餾、榴. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 溜liū · ㄌㄧㄡ部首 氵 三點水 · waterto slip away; to escape in stealth83%
- 瘤liú · ㄌㄧㄡˊ部首 疒 病字頭 · sicktumor93%
- 餾liù · ㄌㄧㄡˋ部首 飠 食字旁 · to eatto steam; to cook in a steamer83%
- 榴liú · ㄌㄧㄡˊ部首 木 · treepomegranate93%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 留 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 留 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 88%.
Words this family builds
- 留下
- 留言
- 留給
- 保留
- 留意
- 拘留
- 停留
- 腫瘤
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