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Pictograph of a legendary mountain demon with horns and a tail beween its legs, now written as . The traditional character (leave; depart; away from) was simplified to by deleting the (bird) component.

Components

SoundIconic component
lín forest
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to than it was in ancient scripts.
𠦒
𠦒 Iconic component
bān net for catching birds or rabbits

Depicts a net. Similar to .


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttrhjer̥aj mountain demon

說文解字

《說文》:“离,山神獸也。从禽頭,从厹,从屮。歐陽喬說:‘离,猛獸也。’”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.954林志強《《文源》評注》p.7漢語多功能字庫李学勤《字源》p.1268-1269陳靖《兩周古文字編注》p.2182
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica