离

離traditional

HSK 2#912 by frequencyradical 禸

Lí["v","p"]

to leave; to part from; to be away from; (in giving distances) from; without (sth); independent of; one of the Eight Trigrams 卦, symbolizing fire; ☲

chī

mythical beast (archaic)

Examples

请远离他。

Please stay away from him.

离这里不远。

It's not far from here to there.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.