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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC Regular Modern
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Original meaning: catch a bird
Phonosemantic compound. 隹 represents the meaning and 离 represents the sound.
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
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)