离开 - Mandarin word #169

离开

líkāi

Traditional: 離開

HSK 2

#169 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to leave, to depart from

Stroke order

离

开

。

He has left.

。

Please don't leave me.

。

I am leaving this city tomorrow.

。

He left home last night.

座zuò。

Please do not leave your seat.

离开 (lí kāi) means to leave, to depart from. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

出去

to go out, to exit

回家

to go home, to return home

回来

to come back, to return

去

to go

走

to walk; to leave, to go

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 4.