# 離 — Detach

Frequency rank 354 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 式 (Ritual), less common than 育 (Nurture).

- On’yomi: り
- Kun’yomi: はな
- Radical: 隹 Short-Tailed Bird (Kangxi 172)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

A leader on the left watches a bird on the right fly away -- the leader must detach and let the bird go free.

In words:

- 離す はなす — to part,divide,separate
- 離れる はなれる — to be separated from,to leave,to go away,to be a long way off
- 離婚 りこん — divorce

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