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(lí) - leave, depart from, away from in Mandarin

Traditional: 離

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Translation

leave, depart from, away from

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

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Stroke order for 离

Examples

xiāng

He left his hometown.

The school is not far from here.

She left that company.

The school is close to my home.

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.

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 离.

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This word is part of lesson 17.