离开

离开 líkāi in a sentence

Leave (to depart)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 5 sentences

离开 (líkāi) means Leave (to depart). Below are 5 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

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

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

From the graded readers

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

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

Questions about 离开

How is 离开 used in a sentence?

This page shows 5 sentences using 离开 (líkāi, "Leave (to 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.

Is 离开 an HSK word?

Yes — 离开 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 离开?

The dictionary page for 离开 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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