離 — Chinese character
離
lí
rare beast; strange; elegant
- Pinyin
- lí
- Radical
- 172 ⾫ (Short Tailed Bird)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 离 隹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 隹; sound component 离
- Simplified
- 离
- Japanese
- 離 as a kanji
離 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 3 · Analects 1 · Art of War 2 · I Ching 4 · Mencius 11 · Zhuangzi 58 · Doctrine of the Mean 2
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 10
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 26
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 28
- Analects 16.1
- Art of War 1.23
- Art of War 11.16
- Hexagram 12
- Hexagram 30
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.