留活口

留活口
liúhuókǒu

to capture alive a criminal (or enemy etc) for interrogation

2 meanings
MEANING2 meanings

MEANING

  1. verb

    to capture alive a criminal (or enemy etc) for interrogation

    • We must take them alive.

  2. verb

    (of a perpetrator) to let a witness live

    • He left someone alive.

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CHARACTER ANALYSIS

To keep the field of land from the Mão hour onward, hold it forever without leaving.

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