(lí) - leave, depart from, away from in Mandarin
líTraditional: 離
Translation
leave, depart from, away from
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Word origin
离 means to leave or be apart from. The traditional 離 is a phono-semantic compound with the 隹 'short-tailed bird' radical and the phonetic 离 (chī), the modern simplified form keeping only the phonetic.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- traditional 離: 隹 (bird radical) + 离 (chī, phonetic); simplified 离
Stroke order
离
Examples
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He left his hometown.
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The school is not far from here.
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She left that company.
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The school is close to my home.
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There are still ten minutes until class starts.
离 (lí) means leave, depart from, away from. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
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Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 离.
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离: worksheet, infographic and listicle
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This word is taught in chapter 11, lesson 3: 离, 安静, 妹妹 and 7 more words.