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留住

liú zhù

2-character word

What 留住 means

1. to ask sb to stay
2. to keep sb for the night
3. to await (classical)

The characters in 留住

• 留liúto leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay
• 住zhùto live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease…

Sounds the same

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

• 留驻to keep stationed (of troops); to remain as a garrison

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