IDENTITY
离líto leave; from (distance)
HSK 2Top 350
CORE MEANING
to leave; from (distance)
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to leave; to be away fromHSK2
- 2.to separateHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 亠lid radical (tóu)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱㐫禸
- the inner part
- part of the structure
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
离开líkāito leave
离婚líhūndivorce
距离jùlídistance
Graded examples
他离开了家乡。Tā líkāi le jiāxiāng.HSK3
He left his hometown.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 禽
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
The bird (old 離, a yellow oriole) flying off — leaving, distance. (From 離.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #350
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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