漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
離: detach, separation
Also: disjoin, digress
JLPT N119 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 离(sound)
- 隹old bird(meaning)
隹 carries the meaning · 离 gives the sound
19 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
リri · on'yomi · in compounds
- 離島りとうoutlying island
- 距離きょりdistance, range
- 支離滅裂なしりめつれつなincoherent, illogical
- 離婚するりこんするdivorce
- 離陸するりりくするtake off (e.g. airplane)
- 隔離するかくりするisolate, segregate
- 分離するぶんりするseparate
- 剥離するはくりするpeel off
はなれるhanareru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 離れるはなれるleave, separate [v.i.]
- 離れ離れはなればなれscattered, separated [n.]
はなすhanasu · kun'yomi
- 離すはなすpart, divide, separate [v.t.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)离 (sound) + 隹 bird (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 離 (rev. 92202131), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Look at those folded wings and that sturdy little body! This is the bird that rests on the garden branches and chirps at dawn.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
离
Also built on 离
In ChineseSimplified 离 · traditional, as in Japanese · lí
Japan keeps the traditional form 離; mainland China simplifies it to 离.
- Simplified
- 离 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 離 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lí most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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