離 (lí)
To leave; to be away from; distance
How 離 is written
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 亠 — lid
- Traditional
- 離
- Simplified
- 离
Components
- 亠 lid
- 凵 container
- 乂 N/A
- 禸 track
- 隹 small bird
Common words using 離
- 距離 jùlí
- distance; to be apart; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 遠離 yuǎnlí
- to be far from; to keep away from
- 離婚 líhūn
- to divorce; divorced from (one's spouse)
- 離開 líkāi
- to depart; to leave
- 偏離 piānlí
- to deviate; to diverge; to wander
- 分離 fēnlí
- to separate
- 別離 biélí
- to take leave of; to leave; separation
- 形影不離 xíngyǐngbùlí
- inseparable (as form and shadow)
- 悲歡離合 bēihuānlíhé
- joys and sorrows; partings and reunions; the vicissitudes of life
- 支離破碎 zhīlípòsuì
- scattered and smashed (idiom)
- 流離 liúlí
- homeless and miserable; forced to leave home and wander from place to place; to live as a refugee
- 脫離 tuōlí
- to separate oneself from; to break away from; diastasis (medicine)
離 in a sentence
我家離捷運站很近。
Wǒ jiā lí jiéyùnzhàn hěn jìn.
“My house is very close to the MRT station.”
How common is 離?
離 is the 418th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 72% of all running text.
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