留活口
Traditional form:
留活口
Pinyin (reading):
liúhuókǒu
Definitions:
- to capture alive a criminal (or enemy etc) for interrogation
- (of a perpetrator) to let a witness live
Characters:
- 留 - to stay, to remain; to preserve, to keep; to leave a message;
- 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
- 口 - mouth; entrance, gate, opening
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