Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

555 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 19

Meaning: detach, separation, disjoin, digress

Kunyomi: はな.れる はな.す

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ふるとり

Meaning: small bird

Strokes: 8

Examples

Examples with audio

島(りとう)   outlying island

(きょり)   distance, range

滅裂な(しりめつれつな)   incoherent, illogical

婚する(りこんする)   divorce

陸する(りりくする)   take off (e.g. airplane)

する(かくりする)   isolate, segregate

する(ぶんりする)   separate

する(はくりする)   peel off

す(はなす)   part, divide, separate [v.t.]

れる(はなれる)   leave, separate [v.i.]

れ(はなればなれ)   scattered, separated [n.]

Onyomi Examples

li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)

リキュウ imperial villa, royal villa, detached palace

短距 タンキョリ short distance, short range, short-haul

近距 キンキョリ short distance

Kunyomi Examples

れる はなれる to be separated, to be apart, to be distant, to leave, to go away, to leave (a job, etc.), to quit, to give up, to lose connection with, to drift away from

はなす to separate, to part, to divide, to keep apart