扣留 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. kòuliú ㄎㄡˋ ㄌㄧㄡˊ 男 女 to detain sb to hold sb against their will to withhold (property, documents, funds etc) Character by character 扣(kòu)fasten 留(liú)leave A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT