to leave; to be away from; (in giving distances) from

Character data

Radical ⾫ (172.11)
Strokes 18
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

離 lí
  1. 1. to leave
  2. 2. to be away from
  3. 3. (in giving distances) from
  4. 4. to part from
  5. 5. without (sth)
  6. 6. independent of
  7. 7. surname Li
  8. 8. one of the Eight Trigrams bā guà, symbolizing fire
  9. 9.

Words containing 離

Word Meaning
centrifuge
sad feeling at separation (idiom)
parting sorrow; pain of separation
dispersed; scattered about; (math.) discrete
discreteness
discrete mathematics
to abandon
(sad) farewell song
to leave harbor; departure (at airport)
departure lounge
to be divorced
to divorce
Lishi district of Lüliang city lǚ liáng shì[Lu:3 liang2 shi4], Shanxi 西shān xī
Lishi District, Lüliang, Shanxi
(literary) desolate and lonely
to rebel against orthodoxy
offline (computing)
to quit a job; to leave office; to retire
to abandon suffering and obtain happiness (Buddhism)
beyond reasonable limits; excessive; irregular
to defect; to be disloyal
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
to leave; to depart
to die; to leave this world
to leave one's homeland