← Back to history 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC Regular Modern
Rollback 2stYNC4y8ELMb67Sj
Changed fields: gloss, hint, originalMeaning, isVerified, components, customSources, strokeDataSimp, fragmentsSimp, historicalImages
Phonosemantic compound. 隹 represents the meaning and 离 represents the sound. The 隹 (bird) component alludes to a bird flying away.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | lje | [r]aj | meet with, encounter |
| lje | [r]aj | depart from | |
| ljeH | raj-s | reject |
說文解字
《說文》：“離，離黃，倉庚也。鳴則蠶生。从隹，离聲。”
Sources
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)