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離

離

See also: 离

Translingual

Han character

離 (radical 172 隹+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜月人土 (YBOG), four-corner 00414, composition ⿰离隹)

References

  • KangXi: page 1369, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42140
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1875, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4106, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+96E2

Chinese

trad. 離
simp. 离

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (离) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
謧 *reːl, *rel
璃 *reːl, *rel
離 *reːls, *rel, *rels
縭 *rel
离 *rel, *r̥ʰel
醨 *rel
樆 *rel
褵 *rel
漓 *rel
黐 *rel, *r̥ʰel
籬 *rel
灕 *rel
蘺 *rel
攡 *rel
魑 *r̥ʰel
螭 *r̥ʰel
摛 *r̥ʰel

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *reːls, *rel, *rels) : semantic 隹 ‎(“bird”) + phonetic 离 ‎(OC *rel, *r̥ʰel) – birds flying away (departing).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 離
Mandarin Beijing /li³⁵/
Harbin /li²⁴/
Tianjin /li⁴⁵/
Jinan /li⁴²/
Qingdao /li⁴²/
Zhengzhou /li⁴²/ ～婚
/li³¹²/ ～開
Xi'an /li²⁴/ ～別
/li⁴⁴/ ～開
Xining /l̩²⁴/
Yinchuan /li⁵³/
Lanzhou /li⁵³/
Ürümqi /li⁵¹/
Wuhan /ni²¹³/
Chengdu /ni³¹/
Guiyang /ni²¹/
Kunming /li³¹/
Nanjing /li²⁴/
/li⁴⁴/
Hefei /zz̩⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /li¹¹/
Pingyao /li¹³/ ～別
/li³⁵/ 分開了
Hohhot /li³¹/
Wu Shanghai /li²³/
Suzhou /li¹³/
Hangzhou /li¹³/
Wenzhou /lei³¹/
Hui Shexian /li⁴⁴/
Tunxi /li⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /li¹³/
Xiangtan /ni¹²/
Gan Nanchang /li⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /li¹¹/
Taoyuan /li¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /lei²¹/
Nanning /li²¹/
Hong Kong /lei²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /li³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /lie⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /li⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /li⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /li³¹/
Rime
Character 離 離 離
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 來 (37) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 支 (11) 支 (11) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) III III IV
Fanqie 呂支切 力智切 郎計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liᴇ/ /liᴇH/ /leiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liɛ/ /liɛH/ /leiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljɛ/ /ljɛH/ /lɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /liə̆/ /liə̆H/ /lɛjH/
Li
Rong		 /lie/ /lieH/ /leiH/
Wang
Li		 /lǐe/ /lǐeH/ /lieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lie̯/ /lie̯H/ /lieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lí lì lì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 離 離 離
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lí lí lì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lje › ‹ lje › ‹ ljeH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]aj/ /*[r]aj/ /*raj-s/
English meet with, encounter depart from reject

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 離 離 離
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 7779 7780 7794
Phonetic
component		 离 离 离
Rime
group		 歌 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 麗 離 詈
Old
Chinese		 /*reːls/ /*rel/ /*rels/
Notes 甲文象隹入網羅，離反爲省文

Definitions

離

  1. to leave, depart
  2. to go away
  3. to separate
  4. away from
  5. 3rd of the 8 trigrams
  6. 30th hexagram of the I Ching

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

離

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

離 • ‎(ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune-Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

離 (ly, li, le, lè, lì, lìa, lia)

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