The Chinese Radical: 离


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Meaning
to part from    离

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
to leave, to part from, distant, without sth.

Top: trash can 㐫 (cover 亠 and grim 凶 [= container 凵 with dreadful 㐅 content]), below: 禸 (part of scorpion 禺)
Into the trash with the scorpion, so that it "leaves" us.  
HSK 5
glass, colored glaze

Left: king, jade 王, right: to part from 离 (Use the trash 㐫 can for the scorpion 禺, so that it "leaves" us.) [禺 = scorpion 田,禸 with hint legs 冂 and the sting 厶]
The king has a pot with scorpions that is made of glass. [Or: The "jade" of the pot with scorpions is: glass.]  
HSK 6
poultry, generic term for birds
qín
Top: person 人, bottom: to part from 离 (Use the trash 㐫 can for the scorpion 禺 [you see 禸 =the hint legs 冂 and the sting 厶], so that it "leaves" us.)
The image of a chicken coop 㐫 with a ladder 禸 stands: for poultry.  
no HSK
to capture, catch, seize, arrest
qín
Left hand 扌, right: poultry 禽 (The image of a chicken coop with a ladder 禸 stands: for poultry)
By hand the poultry can be: captured.  
no HSK
a fence, hedge

Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: to part from 离 (Use the trash 㐫 can for the scorpion 禺 [you see 禸 =hint legs 冂 and the sting 厶], so that it "leaves" us.)
Use bamboo to avoid a "leaving" by building a: fence.  
no HSK
seep through, dripping wet, dripping of sweat

Left: water 氵, right: to part from 离 (Use the trash 㐫 can for the scorpion 禺 [you see 禸 =hint legs 冂 and the sting 厶], so that it "leaves" us.)
If the water is parting, it is seeping through.  

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