REMAIN 停留居/止
BE-IN ENDURINGLY:continuously in the FUTURE.
Old Chinese Criteria
Modern Chinese Criteria
REMAIN
manere refers to remaining in a place rather than going away.
morari refers to tarrying, as an interruption of real or possible motion.
DETAIN
morari can refer to prevailing upon someone to stay of his own free will by proposing conditions.
tardare refers to rpeventing a person's hastening on his way by making difficulties for him.
detinere refers to hindering someone from going forward by force.
DEMEURER.RESTER
Words (24 items)
留 liú OC: b-ru MC: lɨu 21 Attributions
Liú 留 (ant. lí 離 "get away from a place") refers to immobility in one place after one has already spent some time there.
- Word relations
- Ant: 去/LEAVE
The general word for leaving one place for another is qù 去 (ant. liú 留"remain"). - Assoc: 稽/REMAIN
- Syntactic words
- nabcausativefigurative: the retaining of a given textual alternativeCH
- viSHI, SHU: remain in place, stay
- vimiddle voicebe delayed
- vt(oN)stay in the contextually determinate place
- vt(oN)causativecause a contextually determinate N to remain where he is (one could speak of two omitted objects)
- vtoNcausativecause to stay with one; cause (somebody N) to remain in the position or place currently occupied; keep
- vtoNcausativecause to remain > leave behind
- vtoNcausativecause N to remain in placeCH
- vtoNN=placeremain in a place
- vttoN1.postN2causativecause (someone/something N2) to remain (in a place N1)
住 zhù OC: tos MC: ʈi̯o 11 Attributions
- Word relations
- Ant: 往 / 往迋/GO TO
Wǎng 往 (ant. jū 居 "remain at home") refers to setting out for a destination by any means of transport or by foot, and the destination is not very often made explicit by an ordinary noun as object. Moreover wǎng 往 does not necessarily imply going somewhere by the most direct route.
- Syntactic words
- nabbuddhistBUDDH: continuation, sustaining (of exisitence) (as part of the four phases of birth, continuation, change, and extinction)
- nabstativeremaining; staying behind
- viactstay put; stay in place
- vt(oN)remain in the contextually determinate N
- vt+prep+Nremain in
- vtoNremain in
- vtoNfigurativeremain in
止 zhǐ OC: kljɯʔ MC: tɕɨ 8 Attributions
Zhǐ 止 is inchoative and refers to the coming to stop so as to remain in a certain place after movement.
- Syntactic words
- nabpscychologicalpermanent basic moral commitmentCH
- viactremain in a place or in an office
- vt(oN)stay with a contextually determinate object
- vt+prep+Nremain at; remain with CH
- vt+prep+Nfigurativeremain permanently committed toCH
- vtoNcausativecause (somebody) to stay where he is; not allow (somebody) to leave
久 jiǔ OC: klɯʔ MC: kɨu 6 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- viactremain for a long time
- vt+prep+Nremain for a long time in
處 chǔ OC: khljaʔ MC: tɕhi̯ɤ 5 Attributions
Chǔ 處 (ant. yóu 游 "travel"), much rarer than jū 居, refers to being situated in one place rather than moving about, and the word, in this meaning, can refer to persons as well as things.
- Syntactic words
- viactremain (with someone)
- vtoNremain in the place N
- vtoNfigurativeremain in, stay in
居 jū OC: ka MC: ki̯ɤ 5 Attributions
The current word for staying or remaining in one place is jū 居 (ant. xíng 行 "walk away").
- Syntactic words
- viacttake one's place; remain with a person; remain in a place; stay put
住止 zhù zhǐ OC: dos kljɯʔ MC: ɖi̯o tɕɨ 3 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPadNwhich one remains or dwells in
- VPt(oN)remain in a contextually determinate place
淹 yān OC: qrom MC: ʔiɛm 3 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- nabactcontinued stay for short time
- viactremain in a place
退 tuì OC: thuubs MC: thuo̝i 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- viremain in a demoted/low position; fail to obtain high position, be held back (in a low position)
立 lì OC: ɡ-rub MC: lip 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- viactremain in place; subsist, remain in existence
間 xián MC: -- OC: -- 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vtoNN=placeremain and take one's leisure in
留止 liú zhǐ MC: ljuw tsyiX OC: b-ru kljɯʔ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPistay; remain at the original placeDS
留處 liú chù OC: b-ru qhljas MC: lɨu tɕhi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPiactstay in place
于 yú OC: ɢʷra MC: ɦi̯o
於 yú OC: qa MC: ʔi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vtoNremain [watch out if this is not standardly 於!!!]
存 cún OC: sɡɯɯn MC: dzuo̝n 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vt[oN]remain where one is; remain in place
宿 sù OC: suɡ MC: suk 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- nsubjectwhat sits still (birds one shoots at), what remains in its place
止死 zhǐ sǐ OC: kljɯʔ pliʔ MC: tɕɨ si 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPiactstay in place to die
滯 zhì OC: dads MC: ɖiɛi 1 Attribution
Zhì 滯 refers to getting stuck in one place, being unable to leave.
- Syntactic words
- vistay in place; be delayed in; get stuck in, be unable to leave, remain in against one's will
久留 jiǔ liú OC: klɯʔ b-ru MC: kɨu lɨu 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPt[oN]remain in a place for long
遲 chí MC: drij OC: rlil 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- viremain in place, stay in place for longCH
餘 yú OC: la MC: ji̯ɤ 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vadNremaining, lingering, festering
駐 zhù OC: tos MC: ʈi̯o 0 Attributions
Zhù 駐 can come to refer to staying in a place other than one's home.
- Syntactic words
- viremain in one place
- vtoNcausativecause to remain > stop, bring to a halt
駐軍 zhù jūn OC: tos kun MC: ʈi̯o ki̯un 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPicause one's army to stay in one place