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HSK
to depart; to leave
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *離* | 離* | *離
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
to divorce
HSK 3
distance / CL: 個|个 / to be apart from
HSK 4
inseparable / inevitably linked to
HSK 4
to separate
HSK 5
to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany)
HSK 5
to be far from / to keep away from
HSK 6
to withdraw from / to evacuate
HSK 6
to separate / to isolate
HSK 7-9
odd; bizarre
HSK 7-9
joys and sorrows / partings and reunions / the vicissitudes of life
HSK 7-9
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
homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight / to drift
inappropriate; improper; out of place
(computing) offline
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *離* | 離* | *離
surname Li
to run out / to escape
negative ion / anion (physics)
close range
to leave (on a long journey) / to part from sb
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *离* | 离* | *离
mythical beast (archaic)
to leave / to exit
clutch (mechanics)
to be at odds with / centrifugal (force)
short distance / a stone's throw away
to peel / to strip / to peel off / to come off (of tissue, skin, covering etc)
to leave office / to leave one's post
to leave a country (or place)
blurred / hard to make out distinctly
to take leave of / to leave / separation
Islands District of the New Territories, Hong Kong
to divorce
(of family members) separated from one another; scattered about; dispersed / (math.) discrete
to deviate / to diverge / to wander
impossible to unravel / confusing
lithium ion battery
monstrous and multicolored / grotesque and variegated
to collapse and fall apart (idiom); to break up / falling to pieces
On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原 in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
to sow dissension (idiom); to drive a wedge between
ionosphere
scattered and smashed (idiom)
positive ion / cation (physics)
centrifuge
to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains (idiom) / to lure an enemy away from his territory
a family wrenched apart (idiom)
lit. seeming neither close nor distant (idiom) / fig. to keep one's distance / (of a relationship) lukewarm / vague
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
to leave one's post
the appearance of unity, but divided at heart (idiom); seeming harmony belies underlying disagreement
to drive away / to dispel
many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose
social upheaval caused by war or famine etc
to betray / to desert / to defect from / to turn renegade
racial segregation / apartheid
clutch (in car gearbox) / separation and reunion
to rebel against orthodoxy / to depart from established practices
to be neither too familiar nor too distant / to keep sb at arm's length
Lishi district of Lüliang city 呂梁市|吕梁市, Shanxi 山西
plasma (physics)
destitute and homeless (idiom); forced from one's home and wandering about / displaced
centrifugal force
pretty close / very near / about right
to follow sb closely (idiom) / to keep close to
to abandon
to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom)
to escape from the abyss of suffering / to shed off a wretched plight
fragmented / disorganized / incoherent
to drive a wedge between (allies, partners etc)
(Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦
to abscond / to be absent without leave
homeless and miserable / forced to leave home and wander from place to place / to live as a refugee
to desert / to leave / to forsake
to digress; to stray from the subject
parting sorrow / pain of separation
to talk shop all the time (idiom)
lit. people rebelling and friends deserting (idiom) / fig. to find oneself utterly isolated
sad feeling at separation (idiom)
negative ion / anion (physics)
not much different / similar / ordinary / nearly
to depart from / to deviate from / deviation
destitute and homeless (idiom); displaced and without means
centrifuge
outlying islands
to retire / to leave work and rest (euphemism for compulsory retirement of old cadres)
to defect / to be disloyal
ion / ionized (e.g. gas)
detached palace / imperial villa
the appearance of unity, but divided at heart (idiom); seeming harmony belies underlying disagreement
(physics) plasma
to remove / to step back from involvement / to disengage
pretty close / just about right / not bad / same as 差不多
erhua variant of 離譜|离谱
to steer (the plane) away from / to drive away (from a place) / to leave
(neologism c. 2012) decluttering; minimalism (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 断捨離 "danshari", lit. "forgoing, discarding and letting go")
positive ion / cation (physics)
to be weaned / weaning
to disassociate / to drift away / to leave (a collective) / free (component)

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