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拘留

jū liú

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

拘留 (jū liú) means "to detain (a prisoner); to keep sb in custody". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 拘留 means

1. to detain (as a prisoner); to keep sb in custody

The characters in 拘留

• 拘jūto capture; to restrain; to constrain
• 留liúto leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay

Example sentences

• 警方拘留了他。
  Jǐngfāng jūliú le tā.
  The police held him in custody.
• 这个男人被警察拘留了。
  Zhège nánrén bèi jǐngchá jūliú le.
  The man was held in police custody.
• 巴西最高法院大法官亚历山大德莫赖斯因涉嫌在针对雅伊尔博索纳罗的案件中侵犯人权 (例如审查和任意拘留)，而受到《全球马格尼茨基人权问责法》的制裁。这些制裁引发了美国和巴西之间的外交和经济紧张局势。
  Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes was sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act for alleged rights violations, such as censorship and arbitrary detention, in the case against Jair Bolsonaro. The sanctions have sparked diplomatic and economic tensions between the US and Brazil.

Words starting with 拘留

• 拘留所jū liú suǒdetention center; prison

Words containing 拘留

• 刑事拘留xíng shì jū liúto detain as criminal; criminal detention
• 行政拘留xíng zhèng jū liúto incarcerate sb for a violation of administrative law, typically for 10 days or less…

Sounds the same

Read jū liú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 居留to reside

Where 拘留 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiù–jū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jū liú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.