り
Meanings
Noun
1. li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
り
Used in vocabulary (65 in total)
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
divorce
distance; range; difference (e.g. in opinion); gap; metric
divergence; alienation; deviation; estrangement; separation; detachment
isolated island; outlying island; leaving an island
dazzling; brilliant
divorce; dissolution of adoption
li (hexagram 30 of the I Ching: fire, the clinging)
alliance and rupture; meeting and parting
estrangement; alienation; disaffection; (customer) churn; attrition
withdrawal; secession; separation; breakaway
takeoff
incoherent; inconsistent; illogical; disorderly; confused; nonsensical
refloating; getting off a reef; getting off the rocks
isolated mountain; departure from a temple
sleepwalking; somnambulism; autoscopy
dispersed (of citizens in a war-torn country, etc.)
giving up farming for another profession
departure from the capital
leaving one's village
departure from Japan
making preparations for a divorce
renunciation; self-abnegation
imperial villa; royal villa; detached palace
separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation
detachment; coming off; peeling off; (flow) separation
parting; separation
separation; divorce
leaving one's seat
takeoff and landing
dissociation; unravelling and separating
estrangement; alienation; sowing discord; driving a wedge
taking off and landing; departure and arrival (aircraft)
employment separation; leaving one's job; losing one's job
inseparability
departure from office
egress; egression; entering the priesthood
centrifugation; centrifugal separation
takeoff from water
dissection; disconnection; diaeresis
depersonalization
getting out of bed; leaving one's sickbed
removal of name from family register
secession from a political party
isolation (e.g. of a particular chemical substance within a mixture)
withdrawal; secession; elimination; desorption
removal of dissolute sons from the family register (Edo period)
divorce ceremony
departure from one's home town
isolation; separation
leaving a ship; abandoning a ship
leaving the base
eccentricity
abandoning all worldly desires
agony of separation
making preparations for a divorce
backward belt throw
syneresis
eccentric circle
parting party; divorce party
elongation
choripetalous; polypetalous; schizopetalous
keen eyesight; (lit.) the eyesight of Lilou (character with superior eyesight in ancient Chinese folklore)
solitude; seclusion; isolation
separation of the soul from the body; disembodied soul