立

• Physical: To stand, be upright, or maintain a stationary posture.
• Institutional/Foundational: To establish, fix in place, or provide a permanent foundation (e.g., for laws or dynasties).
• Social/Existential: To achieve recognized status or validation within a social or cosmic order (cf. 立身), where "failure to stand" suggests a lack of social footing.
• Temporal: The onset or beginning of a season (e.g., 立春, "Start of Spring"), denoting emergence.

• Intransitive: To stand (state of being).
• Transitive: To establish or set up (action).
• Causative/Permissive: To let something stand; to leave a decision or law in place without alteration.

Contrast with 住 and 留: while all can overlap in the sense of "remaining" in a place, 立 specifically implies uprightness, formality, or a degree of permanence and intention not necessarily present in 住 (dwelling/stopping) or 留 (staying/detaining).