离
líchīLí HSK2

leave

离 (離) lí frequency
away from verb
indicating the distance from a point in space or time

我家离公司很近。

wǒ jiā lí gōng​sī hěn jìn.

My home is very close to the company.

leave verb
to leave, part from, or separate from people or places

他去年离开了北京。

tā qù​nián lí kāi le Běi​jīng.

He left Beijing last year.

without verb
to be independent of or to be without something necessary

这项实验离了那台精密仪器可做不成。

zhè xiàng shí​yàn lí le nà tái jīng​mì yí​qì kě zuò bù chéng.

This experiment cannot be done without that precision instrument.

Li trigram verb
one of the Eight Trigrams (Bagua) in Chinese cosmology, representing fire

在八卦之中，离代表火，而坎代表水。

zài bā​guà zhī​zhōng, lí dài​biǎo huǒ, ér kǎn dài​biǎo shuǐ.

In the Eight Trigrams, Li represents fire, while Kan represents water.

离 chī
mythical beast verb
mythical beast (archaic)

这些古玉上刻有离的纹样。

zhè​xiē gǔ yù shàng kè​yǒu chī de wén​yàng.

These ancient jades are carved with the patterns of the 'Li' trigram.

离 (離) Lí
Li proper name
surname Li

离先生是这位医生的病号。

Lí xiān​sheng shì zhè wèi yī​shēng de bìng​hào.

Mr. Li is a patient of this doctor.

Frequency
Character
Written text
418th most common 520.6 per million
Movie subtitles
227th most common 762.7 per million appears in 95% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
181.5 per million appears in 54% of films
Written text
103.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
離
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+79BB

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)