離れる

はなれる · hanareru · JLPT N3 · verb-ichidan

to be apart

🐦 hana-reru: Hana rarely stays; she always parts from you

離 contains 隹, the short-tailed bird radical: a bird that leaves its perch. The same kanji is in 距離 (kyori, distance) and 離婚 (rikon, divorce), and both are about being apart.

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