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to divorce
HSK 3
to separate
HSK 5
to depart; to leave
HSK 2
inseparable / inevitably linked to
HSK 4
distance / CL: 個|个 / to be apart from
HSK 4
to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany)
HSK 5
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to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing fire /
HSK 2
(chemistry) deionized water
to be far from / to keep away from
HSK 6
sad feeling at separation (idiom)
to withdraw from / to evacuate
HSK 6
joys and sorrows / partings and reunions / the vicissitudes of life
HSK 7-9
mutual-consent divorce (in ancient China)
to be neither too familiar nor too distant / to keep sb at arm's length
ion
short distance / a stone's throw away
to abscond / to be absent without leave
monstrous and multicolored / grotesque and variegated
to abandon suffering and obtain happiness (Buddhism)
inseparable (as form and shadow)
HSK 7-9
to leave one's job temporarily (e.g. for study) / to leave one's job; to resign
HSK 7-9
to stand by (sb) (idiom) / steadfast loyalty
many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose
inappropriate; improper; out of place
odd; bizarre
HSK 7-9
clutch (mechanics)
to separate / to isolate
HSK 7-9
absence makes the heart grow fonder
to be at odds with / centrifugal (force)
transmission distance
to depart from / to deviate from / deviation
lithium ion battery
(biology) reproductive isolation
scattered and smashed (idiom)
close range
inseparable
(chemistry) zwitterion
to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains (idiom) / to lure an enemy away from his territory
ionic bond (chemistry)
centrifugal force
dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 屍首分離|尸首分离 or 屍首異處|尸首异处, decapitation is implied.)
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
to run out / to escape
to digress; to stray from the subject
to follow sb closely (idiom) / to keep close to
to deviate / to diverge / to wander
positive ion / cation (physics)
to remove / to step back from involvement / to disengage
pretty close / very near / about right
On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原 in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
to pull sb close to oneself / (fig.) (typically followed by 距離|距离) to bridge (the distance between people) (i.e. to build a closer relationship)
long-distance
(of family members) separated from one another; scattered about; dispersed / (math.) discrete
to collapse and fall apart (idiom); to break up / falling to pieces
separatism
rigorous isolation
to steer (the plane) away from / to drive away (from a place) / to leave
to leave office / to leave one's post
discrete mathematics
hydroxide ion OH-
positive ion / cation (physics)
to betray / to desert / to defect from / to turn renegade
Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
fragmented / disorganized / incoherent
to reunite after being homeless refugees
to withdraw from the European Union / abbr. for 脫離歐盟|脱离欧盟
long-distance
to get divorced shortly after marriage / to resign shortly after getting employed
to leave / to exit
clutch (in car gearbox) / separation and reunion
to desert / to leave / to forsake
asset stripping
(computing) near-field communication (NFC)
to leave a country (or place)
to become alienated / estranged / alienation / disaffection / set wide apart
heavy ion (physics)
to peel / to strip / to peel off / to come off (of tissue, skin, covering etc)
clutch pedal
carbon sequestration / carbon dioxide sequestration
to bring (people) closer together
impossible to unravel / confusing
homeless and miserable / forced to leave home and wander from place to place / to live as a refugee
release paper; release liner
outlying islands
(computing) offline
ionization chamber
isotopic separation
automatic clutch
(idiom) blurred; confusing
to die / to leave this world
to leave one's post
poetry in the style of 離騷|离骚
(sad) farewell song
centrifuge
(neologism, attested by 2012) decluttering; minimalism (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 断捨離 "danshari", lit. "forgoing, discarding and letting go")
blurred / hard to make out distinctly
to leave (on a long journey) / to part from sb
Lishi, a district of Lüliang City 呂梁市|吕梁市, Shanxi
separatist

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