留守

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Chinese

leave (message); to retain; to stay
leave (message); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve
 
to guard
simp. and trad.
(留守)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/2
Initial () (37) (26)
Final () (136) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter ljuw syuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɨu/ /ɕɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/liu/ /ɕiuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/liəu/ /ɕiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/luw/ /ɕuwX/
Li
Rong
/liu/ /ɕiuX/
Wang
Li
/lĭəu/ /ɕĭəuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/li̯ə̯u/ /ɕi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
liú shǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lau4 sau2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
liú shǒu
Middle
Chinese
‹ ljuw › ‹ syuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.ru/ /*s-tuʔ/
English stay, remain keep, guard

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/2
No. 8882 11666
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*m·ru/ /*qʰljuʔ/
Notes

Verb

留守

  1. (historical) to act as the monarch during his absence from the capital
  2. to stay behind; to remain for military duty while the main forces depart
  3. to be left behind
    留守兒童留守儿童  ―  liúshǒu értóng  ―  left-behind children

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5

Grade: 3
goon

Pronunciation

Noun

()() (rusu

  1. absence

Derived terms

Verb

()()する (rusu suruintransitive suru (stem ()() (rusu shi), past ()()した (rusu shita))

  1. be absent, be out

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

留守 (yusu) (hangeul 유수)

  1. hanja form? of 유수