離

See also: 离

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 离 (“bird”) + phonetic 隹 – birds flying away (departing).

Han character

離 (radical 172 隹+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜月人土 (YBOG), four-corner 0041₄, composition ⿰离隹)

References

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

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Chinese

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trad.		離
simp.		离

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lí (li²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): lī / lî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
    • IPA ^(key): /li³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁴
    • Yale: lèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lei̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī / lî
    • Tâi-lô: lī / lî
    • IPA (Taipei): /li³³/, /li²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /li²²/, /li¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (離, reconstructed)
Character (離), Pronunciation 1/3
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 支 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 呂支切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liᴇ/	/lie̯/	/lie/	/liɛ/	/liə̆/	/lǐe/	/ljɛ/
Character (離), Pronunciation 2/3
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 支 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 力智切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liᴇH/	/lie̯H/	/lieH/	/liɛH/	/liə̆H/	/lǐeH/	/ljɛH/
Character (離), Pronunciation 3/3
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 齊 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 郎計切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/leiH/	/lieiH/	/leiH/	/leiH/	/lɛjH/	/lieiH/	/lɛiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (離, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
離								lí								‹ lje ›								/*[r]aj/								meet with, encounter
離								lí								‹ lje ›								/*[r]aj/								depart from
離								lì								‹ ljeH ›								/*raj-s/								reject
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
離					7779					离					歌					2					麗					/*reːls/
離					7780					离					歌					2					離					/*rel/					甲文象隹入網羅，離反爲省文
離					7794					离					歌					2					詈					/*rels/

Definitions

離

1. to leave, depart
2. to go away
3. to separate
4. 3rd of the 8 trigrams
5. 30th hexagram of the I Ching

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Japanese

Kanji

離

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: り (ri)
• Kun: はなれる (離れる, hanareru), はなす (離す, hanasu), つく (tsuku)

Compounds

• 乖離
• 距離
• 不即不離
• 分離
• 離間
• 離婚
• 離脱
• 離別
• 幽体離脱 (ゆうたいりだつ, yūtairidatsu, “out-of-body experience”)
• 体外離脱 (たいがいりだつ, taigairidatsu, “out-of-body experience”)

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Korean

Hanja

離 (ri, i) (hangeul 리, 이, revised ri, i, McCune-Reischauer ri, i, Yale li, i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

離 (ly, li, le, lè, lì, lìa, lia)

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