Meanings
Noun
1. li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (61 in total)
divorce; dissolution of adoption
divorce
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
divergence; alienation; deviation; estrangement; separation; detachment
distance; range
isolation; separation
isolated island; outlying island; leaving an island
dazzling; brilliant
estrangement; alienation; disaffection
incoherent; inconsistent; illogical; disorderly; confused; nonsensical
dispersed (of citizens in a war-torn country, etc.)
alliance and rupture; meeting and parting
imperial villa; royal villa; detached palace
withdrawal; secession; separation; breakaway
refloating; getting off a reef; getting off the rocks
separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation
sleepwalking; somnambulism; autoscopy
departure from the capital
separation; divorce
isolated mountain; departure from a temple
making preparations for a divorce
leaving one's village
renunciation; self-abnegation
takeoff
giving up farming for another profession
departure from Japan
detachment; coming off; peeling off; (flow) separation
parting; separation
takeoff and landing
leaving one's seat
dissociation
estrangement; alienation; sowing discord; driving a wedge
taking off and landing; departure and arrival (aircraft)
inseparability
employment separation; leaving one's job; losing one's job
departure from office
takeoff from water
dissection; disconnection; diaeresis
centrifugation; centrifugal separation
depersonalization
removal of name from family register
getting out of bed; leaving one's sickbed
secession from a political party
isolation (e.g. of a particular chemical substance within a mixture)
removal of dissolute sons from the family register (Edo period)
departure from one's home town
leaving the base
eccentricity
agony of separation
abandoning all worldly desires
making preparations for a divorce
backward belt throw
syneresis
elimination reaction
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