zyu3駐驻
Jyutpingzyu3
Yalejyu
Definition
To stay, halt, or keep; to preserve.
- to stay, halt, or be stationed at a place
- to preserve or keep
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How it's used
Primarily used in formal or literary contexts to describe stationing troops or keeping a presence in a specific location. In everyday speech, it is almost exclusively encountered in the set phrase 青春常駐 when wishing someone to remain youthful. It does not function as a general verb for staying in a place like 留 or 住.
Examples
They decided to stay there for a few days.
I hope you stay young forever.
Related words
Common mistake
Do not use this word as a direct replacement for staying at home or staying at a hotel, as it carries a sense of official assignment or permanent state that sounds unnatural in casual conversation.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
