HSK 2 · Coming & going

离开

lí kāi

to leave

Stroke order of 离开

2 characters, 14 strokes in total. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

离 · 10 strokes 开 · 4 strokes

Memory trick

The creature escapes the trap '离' and two hands '廾' lift the gate bar '一' open '开' — gone!

Parts: 离 depart (亠 lid + 凶 + 禸 shape) + 开 open (一 bar + 廾 two hands)

The characters in 离开

离 lí — from; away from (10 strokes)
开 kāi — to open; to drive (4 strokes)

Example sentence

他昨天离开了北京。

He left Beijing yesterday.

Words with 离

离from; away from 离婚to divorce

Words with 开

开会to have a meeting 开车to drive 开to open; to drive 打开to open; to turn on 开玩笑to joke 开学school starts 开机to turn on (a device)开心happy 走开to go away 分开to separate 开业to open for business 推开to push open 公开open; to make public 开始to start; beginning 开发to develop 开放to open; open 开展to carry out; to launch 展开to unfold; to launch

More words: Coming & going

进入to enter 走过to walk past 走进to walk into 走开to go away 过来to come over 经过to pass; through 通过to pass; by means of 通to connect; to go through 站住to stop; halt 停to stop 排row; to line up 排队to queue 靠to lean on; to depend on 身边by one's side

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