停留 (tíng liú) means “to stay somewhere temporarily; to stop over”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
我们在北京停留了三天。
Wǒmen zài Běijīng tíngliú le sān tiān.
We stayed in Beijing for three days.
Updated: 2026-07-18