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離

lí

leave, depart; go away; separate; trigram ☲; hexagram ䷝

Strokes
18
Radical
隹
HSK
—
Tone
2

Simplified form: 离

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 离, the simplified form of 離. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 他们离开了。

    Tā men lí kāi le

    They're gone.

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  • 我不想离开。

    Wǒ bù xiǎng lí kāi

    I don't want to go away.

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  • 你还没离开。

    Nǐ hái méi lí kāi

    You didn't leave yet.

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  • 我就要离开了。

    Wǒ jiù yào lí kāi le

    I was just about to leave.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 离

  • 离开lí kāi 2–1 to depart; to leave
  • 离lí 2to leave; to part from; to be away from; (in giving distances) from; without (sth); independent of; one of the Eight Trigrams 卦, symbolizing fire; ☲
  • 离婚lí hūn 2–1 to divorce
  • 距离jù lí 4–2 distance; to be apart from
  • 离不开lí bu kāi 2–5–1inseparable; inevitably linked to
  • 分离fēn lí 1–2 to separate
  • 脱离tuō lí 1–2 to separate oneself from; to break away from; diastasis (medicine); abscission; abjunction (botany)
  • 远离yuǎn lí 3–2 to be far from; to keep away from
  • 隔离gé lí 2–2 to separate; to isolate
  • 撤离chè lí 4–2 to withdraw from; to evacuate
  • 离职lí zhí 2–2 to leave one's job temporarily (e.g. for study); to leave one's job; to resign
  • 离奇lí qí 2–2 odd; bizarre