离 (lí) means To go (to leave - depart). Below are 17 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
学校 离 我家不远。
Xuéxiào lí wǒ jiā bù yuǎn.
The school is not far from my home.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 离
现在 离 上课还有十分钟。
Xiànzài lí shàng kè hái yǒu shí fēnzhōng.
There are still ten minutes before class.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 离
我家 离 学校很近。
Wǒ jiā lí xuéxiào hěn jìn.
My home is very close to the school.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 近
我家 离 机场很远。
Wǒ jiā lí jīchǎng hěn yuǎn.
My home is far from the airport.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 远
他的公司 离 家很近。
Tā de gōngsī lí jiā hěn jìn.
His company is close to home.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 公司
火车站 离 宾馆不远。
Huǒchēzhàn lí bīnguǎn bù yuǎn.
The train station is not far from the hotel.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 火车站
离 开的时候请关灯。
Líkāi de shíhou qǐng guān dēng.
Please turn off the light when you leave.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 离开
他暗示我应该 离 开。
Tā ànshì wǒ yīnggāi líkāi.
He hinted that I should leave.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 暗示
这个宾馆 离 机场近吗？
Zhège bīnguǎn lí jīchǎng jìn ma?
Is this hotel close to the airport?
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 近
你住的地方 离 银行远吗？
Nǐ zhù de dìfang lí yínháng yuǎn ma?
Is the place you live far from the bank?
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 地方
他昨天 离 开了这个城市。
Tā zuótiān líkāi le zhège chéngshì.
He left this city yesterday.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 离开
我家 离 超市只有三百米。
Wǒ jiā lí chāoshì zhǐyǒu sānbǎi mǐ.
My home is only three hundred metres from the supermarket.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 米
From the graded readers
我家 离 学校不远。
wǒ jiā lí xuéxiào bùyuǎn.
My home isn't far from school.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
我 离 开老家已经十年了。
wǒ líkāi lǎojiā yǐjīng shínián le / liǎo / liào.
It's been ten years since I left my home town.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
超市 离 我家很近，走路只要十分钟。
chāo shì lí wǒ jiā hěn jìn, zǒulù zhǐyào shífēn zhōng.
The supermarket is close to us — ten minutes on foot.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
我这才知道，真正尊重你的人，不会因为一次拒绝就 离 开。
wǒ zhè / zhèi cái zhīdào, zhēnzhèng zūnzhòng nǐ de rén, bùhuì yīnwèi yīcì jùjué jiù líkāi.
That was when I learned that people who genuinely respect you don't leave over one refusal.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
Words that contain 离
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 离
How is 离 used in a sentence?
This page shows 17 sentences using 离 (lí, "To go (to leave - depart)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 离 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 离 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 离 an HSK word?
Yes — 离 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 离?
The dictionary page for 离 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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