Character: 離
Modern (Beijing) reading: lí
Preclassic Old Chinese: raj
Classic Old Chinese: raj
Western Han Chinese: raj
Eastern Han Chinese: re
Early Postclassic Chinese: le
Middle Postclassic Chinese: le
Late Postclassic Chinese: le
Middle Chinese: le
English meaning : be separated
Russian meaning[s]: 1) отойти от...; отлучиться; отделиться; покинуть; нарушить; 2) расставаться, разлучать(ся); разлука; выехать из...; 3) отстоять от...; от; 4) рядом, вместе; 5) попадать в...; подвергнуться; 6) Ли (фамилия)
Comments: Also used for homonymous words: *raj 'to fasten in a net, get tangled, caught in a net' (obviously related to 羅 *rāj 'bird-net', 籬 *raj 'hedge'; sometimes written with another character, 罹 - which, however, has also a metaphoric meaning 'trouble, anxiety, sorrow' < 'drag into, involve'); *raj 'be hanging down'; in the die-sheng 流離 *ru-raj 'horned owl'. For OC *r cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou li2, Fuzhou lie2. There also exists a qu-sheng reading *raj-s, MC lè (FQ 力智) 'to separate'. Regular Sino-Viet. is ly. Viet. also has rò'i 'be separated, separate' - probably a more archaic loan from the same source.
Radical: 172
Four-angle index: 872
Karlgren code: 0023 f
Vietnamese reading: lìa
Shijing occurrences: 37.4, 43.3_
