離

離 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜月人土 (YBOG), four-corner 0041₄, composition ⿰离隹)

• 㒧(𠌯), 囄, 攡(摛), 灕(漓), 㰚, 𪺇, 𤫚, 䙰(褵), 𮉞, 𧕮, 𧮛, 𮣮
• 𢥗, 𡿎, 蘺(蓠), 㒿, 䍦(䍠), 籬(篱), 𢌈

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1369, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42140
• Dae Jaweon: page 1875, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4106, character 2
• Unihan data for U+96E2

• Unihan data for U+F9EA

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *reːls, *rel, *rels): phonetic 离 (OC *rel, *r̥ʰel) + semantic 隹 (“bird”) – black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis). This sense is preserved in the compound 離黃.

Phonetically borrowed for the sense "to depart".

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g(r/l)aːj (“scatter, sow, dispersedly widely; wide; star”) (STEDT). See 侈 (OC *l̥ʰjalʔ, “extravagant”) for more.

離

1. to leave; to depart
2. to go away
3. to separate
4. (colloquial) to divorce
5. away from
6. ☲, the 3rd of the 8 trigrams
7. ䷝, the 30th of the 64 I Ching hexagrams
8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 罹 (lí, “to suffer; to be hit with; to encounter”)
9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 縭 / 缡 (lí)
10. a surname

• → Vietnamese: lìa

離

1. used in 離支／离支 (lìzhī, “lychee”)
2. (obsolete) to reject; to discard

離

1. alternative form of 麗 / 丽 (“to adhere; to attach to”)

離

1. only used in 離跂／离跂

離

1. alternative form of 螭 (chī, “a kind of dragon”)
2. alternative form of 离 (“a kind of legendary beast”)

離

1. only used in 離瞀／离瞀

• “離”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “離”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “離”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “离 (～开)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 158.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “离 (～别)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 158.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. separate, detach, digress

• Go-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kun: はなれる (hanareru, 離れる, Jōyō)、はなす (hanasu, 離す, Jōyō)、つく (tsuku, 離く)

From Middle Chinese 離 (MC lje|ljeH|lejH).

• (Tokyo) り [ríꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲi]

離(り) • (ri) 

1. the third of the eight trigrams of the I Ching ☲

   Hypernym: 八卦

   Coordinate terms: 乾, 兌, 離, 震, 巽, 坎, 艮, 坤

2. the thirtieth of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching ䷝

   Hypernym: 六十四卦

From Middle Chinese 離 (MC lje|ljeH). Recorded as Middle Korean 리 (li) (Yale: li) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

• (initial position)
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [i(ː)]
  • Phonetic hangul: [이(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
• (non-initial position)
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɾi]
  • Phonetic hangul: [리]

Wikisource

離 (eumhun 떠날 리 (tteonal ri), word-initial (South Korea) 떠날 이 (tteonal i))

1. hanja form^? of 리/이 (“to leave”)
2. hanja form^? of 리/이 (“separation; departure”)
3. hanja form^? of 리/이 (“division”)

Related to Middle Chinese 螭 / 离 (MC trhje).

離 (eumhun 교룡(蛟龍) 치)
離 (eumhun 맹수(猛獸) 치)

1. (literary Chinese) alternative form of 螭 (“hanja form^? of 치 (“a kind of dragon”)”)
2. (literary Chinese) alternative form of 离 (“hanja form^? of 치 (“a kind of legendary beast”)”)

Related to Middle Chinese 麗 / 儷 (MC lejH).

離 (eumhun 붙을 려 (buteul ryeo), word-initial (South Korea) 붙을 여 (buteul yeo))
離 (eumhun 나란히 할 려 (naranhi hal ryeo), word-initial (South Korea) 나란히 할 여 (naranhi hal yeo))

1. (literary Chinese) alternative form of 麗 (“hanja form^? of 려/여 (“to adhere”)”)
2. (literary Chinese) alternative form of 儷 (“hanja form^? of 려/여 (“in pair”)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

離: Hán Nôm readings: li, ly, le, lè, lì, lìa, lia

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