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留神

liú shén

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

留神 (liú shén) means "to take care; to be careful". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 留神 means

1. to take care
2. to be careful

The characters in 留神

• 留liúto leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay
• 神shéngod; deity; supernatural; magical; mysterious; spirit; mind; energy

Example sentences

• 请留神看着我的手提箱。
  Qǐng liúshén kàn zhe wǒ de shǒutíxiāng.
  Please keep an eye on my suitcase.
• 要留神，他不容易受骗。
  Yào liúshén, tā bù róngyì shòupiàn.
  Be on your guard. He's not an easy one to fool.

Where 留神 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · liū–lōu (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 liú shén correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.