離
lí HSK2

leave

离 離 lí
to leave verb
to leave; to depart; to part from one another

他妻子离他而去。

tā qī​zi lí tā ér qù.

His wife left him.

上帝从来都没有离开过你，以后也不会离开你。

shàng​dì cóng​lái dōu méi​yǒu lí kāi guo nǐ, yǐ​hòu yě bù​huì lí kāi nǐ.

God has never left you, and he never will.

from preposition
used in giving distances in space or time, meaning "away from" or "distant from"

你的船离这儿远着呢。

nǐ de chuán lí zhèr yuǎn zhe ne.

Your ship is a long way from here.

离我生日只有三天了！

lí wǒ shēng​rì zhǐ​yǒu sān tiān le!

Only three more days until my birthday!

without verbparticle
to be without; to lack; to be independent of
to defy
to defy; to go against or go back on; to betray
Li
(surname) Li
Li Trigram
(bound form) name of one of the eight trigrams in the Bagua, representing fire; name of one of the sixty-four hexagrams
to suffer
to encounter; to suffer; to be subjected to (misfortune, punishment, etc.)

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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
Simplified
离
Strokes
18
Unicode
U+96E2

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