离離 in English
- to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire / ☲
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How it used to be written
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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Jane 又胖、又没礼貌、又烟不离手，可是 Ken 却觉得她可爱、动人，所谓「爱情是盲目的」，大概就是这个意思了吧。
Jane is fat and rude, and smokes too much. However, Ken thinks she's lovely and charming. That's why they say love is blind.
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Jane正要离开家。
Jane was about to leave the house.
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上周六，因为我母亲病了，我无法离开家。
I was unable to leave home last Saturday, with my mother being ill.
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他们离开了。
They're gone.
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他们离弃了自己的国家。
They abandoned their country.
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他八岁时离开了他的父母。
He left his parents when he was eight years old.
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他决定不买那个房子了，首先是因为太贵了，其实是因为离他的办公室太远了。
He decided not to buy the house, because in the first place it was too expensive, and in the second place it was too far from his office.
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他刚离开家。
He has just left home.