Kanji1 / 19
離 kanji
detach, separation, disjoin, digress
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 19
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
リ
Kun readings
はなれるはなす
Words with 離
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —天頂距離the zenith distance
- —光彩陸離dazzling; brilliant
- —重液分離heavy media (liquid) separation
- —最短距離shortest distance (to)
- —焦点距離focal length
- —隔離病舎isolation ward
- —隔離命令isolation order
- —人種隔離racial segregation; apartheid
- —会者定離those who meet must part (suggesting the transient nature of this life); we meet only to part
- —相即不離strongly attached to each other; inseparable
- —厭離穢土abhorrence of (living in) this impure world
- —祭政分離separation of church and state; separation of religious ritual and government administration
- —神仏分離separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)
- —成田離婚Narita divorce; divorce of a newlywed couple upon returning (to Narita Airport) from their honeymoon abroad
- —幽体離脱out-of-body experience
- —離散集合meeting and parting; gathering and scattering; alignment and realignment; alternating alliance and rupture; alternating cooperation and defection; discrete set
- —離村傾向trend to move away from rural areas; rural depopulation
- —一家離散the breakup (dispersal) of a family
- —熟年離婚divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (often brought on by retirement of the husband)
- —定年離婚divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband)