Chinese symbol for “digress”
离题
lí tí
Traditional: 離題
to digress; to stray from the subject
The closest CC-CEDICT match for digress is 离题 (lí tí), defined as: to digress; to stray from the subject.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “digress”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 跑题 (跑題) | pǎo tí | to digress; to stray from the topic |
| 扯远 (扯遠) | chě yuǎn | to digress; to get sidetracked |
| 走题 (走題) | zǒu tí | to get off the main topic; to digress |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 离题.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 离开 (離開) | lí kāi | to depart; to leave |
| 距离 (距離) | jù lí | distance; separation (in space or time); to be ... away from; to be ... from |
| 脱离 (脫離) | tuō lí | to separate oneself from; to break away from |
| 离婚 (離婚) | lí hūn | to divorce |
| 分离 (分離) | fēn lí | to separate |
| 远离 (遠離) | yuǎn lí | to be far from; to keep away from |
| 问题 (問題) | wèn tí | question; problem |
| 主题 (主題) | zhǔ tí | theme; subject |
See also: Japanese symbol for “digress”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.