On a rainy day, we keep guests; Heaven keeps you, but I won't.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
留客
to ask a guest to stay
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to ask a guest to stay
02
to detain a guest
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 留客 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 留客 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
On a rainy day, we keep guests; Heaven keeps you, but I won't.
Rainy day, a day for keeping guests. Will you keep me or not?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 留客.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 留客.
Directly before
- 下雨天留客4
- 天留客1
Directly after
- 留客天3
- 留客天留1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 留客
What does 留客 mean in Chinese?
留客 (liúkè) means to ask a guest to stay.
How do you pronounce 留客?
留客 is pronounced liúkè.
Is 留客 an HSK word?
留客 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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