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