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Pinyin
cún
Definition
exist / deposit / store / keep / survive
存 [cún]
Verb
【Original Meaning】: To live; to exist
1. To live; exist: 例如: ~在 (exist); ~亡 (die); 生~ (be alive).
2. To keep; to leave: 例如: 保~ (preserve); 留~ (retain); ~照 (keep a record); ~疑 (maintain suspicion); 去伪~真 (distinguish truth from falsehood).
3. To deposit: 例如: 寄~ (deposit).
4. To stop and gather: 例如: ~水 (gather water).
5. To harbor; to cherish: 例如: ~心 (harbor feelings); 不~任何奢望 (not harbor any extravagant hopes).
1. To live; exist (En. live; exist)
2. To comfort; console; soothe (En. comfort; console; soothe)
3. To visit; express regards and concern for (En. visit; express regards and concern for)
4. To foster; nurture; protect (En. foster; nurture; protect)
5. To miss; have nostalgia (En. miss)
6. To care; to be concerned (En. concern)
7. To store; preserve; save (En. store; preserve)
**References**
1. From "Erya" (尔雅): 存, exists. Note: "存即在" (To exist is to be present).
2. From "Gongyang Zhuan" (公羊传): There is a son of heaven existing.
3. From "Mengzi" (孟子): Though existing in man.
4. From "Liuzi" (吕氏春秋): If you summon a thief, you will not exist anymore.
5. From "Liezi" (列子): Even in my death, there will be a son existing.
6. From Liu Zongyuan's "The Story of the Snake Catcher": Yet I alone continue to exist by catching snakes.
**Examples**
- 存济 (to survive; to live)
- 存殁 (the living and the deceased)
to exist / to be / existence
extant / existent / in stock
to deposit money (in a bank etc) / bank savings / bank deposit
internal storage / computer memory / random access memory (RAM)
to deposit / to store / to leave in sb's care
property or cash held in reserve / stock
to hold in storage / to retain / to harbor (feelings) / to entertain (sentiments) / (of abstract things) to exist / there is
to exist at the same time / to coexist
(computing) cache / buffer memory
to deposit / to store / to leave sth with sb
processor register (computing)
to sequester / to seal up (for safe keeping) / to freeze (an account) / to mothball
alive / as long as one lives
to file / to save a file (computer) / saved data (for a video game etc)
to store up / to stockpile / (computer) to save / to store / memory / storage
stockpile / to store / to stockpile / storage
main memory / main storage / main store / main internal memory
memory management / storage administration
storage system / memory system / inventory system
to conserve / to preserve / to keep / to save (a file etc) (computing)
to depend on sth for existence / dependent on