残留

残留 cánliú in a sentence

To remain; to be left over; residual; remnant; residue†

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

残留 (cánliú) means To remain; to be left over, residual; remnant, residue †. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

墙上还 残留 着当年的标语。

Qiáng shang hái cánliúzhe dāngnián de biāoyǔ.

Slogans from those years still remain on the wall.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 残留

蔬菜上可能 残留 农药,要多洗几遍。

Shūcài shang kěnéng cánliú nóngyào, yào duō xǐ jǐ biàn.

Pesticide may remain on the vegetables, so wash them several times.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 残留

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How is 残留 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 残留 (cánliú, "To remain; to be left over, residual; remnant, residue †"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 残留 an HSK word?

Yes — 残留 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 残留 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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