mythical beast (archaic)
surname Li
to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire / ☲

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: from 离心机 or 离心分离机, a centrifuge.

= + + : Li Qingzhao is about to leave the space station. As a souvenir she put her beret in the space station's centrifuge and got a demon mask out. Angrily she tramples on the demon mask because what she wanted was a nice and modern hat.

离 character breakdown

old variant of 凶[xiong1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the Chinese demon 白骨精 (Báigǔjīng), a skeleton demoness. Baigujing (㐫) wants to seduce Xu Xian (xu) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). In order not to reveal her true identity, she hides her skull under a demon mask (凶) and a beret (亠).
"lid" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 8)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 亠 looks like a beret. Tecumseh (t) is killing time in the Outhouse's kitchen (ou2) by playing a game. His goal is to blow a petal leaf (丶) into a beret (亠) by blowing air through a flute (一).
terrible / fearful
vicious / fierce / ominous / inauspicious / famine / variant of 兇|凶[xiong1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a vicious (凶) demon mask. Xu Xian (xu) tried out an electric demon mask (凶) in front of the engine ((e)ng1), but now he can't take it off anymore. He already tried to pull the cable out of the receptacle (凵), but it didn't work. Maybe he has more luck using pliers (乂) to pull at the mask.
trample

= + : Robinson Crusoe spent the whole day following a map around in the outhouse's kitchen, expecting to find an invaluable treasure. Instead he just found a fake nose, and infuriated, he tramples on this damned map.

Characters with 离 as component

to spread (fame) / wield (pen)
bridal veil or kerchief
rowan or mountain ash (genus Sorbus)
manjack or cordia (genus Cordia)
red algae / Gracilaria, several species, some edible / Japanese ogonori / arch. used for vanilla-like herb
bride's veil or kerchief
dregs of wine

Words with 离

distance / CL:個|个[ge4] / to be apart from
to be far from / to keep away from
to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany)
to withdraw from / to evacuate
scattered and smashed (idiom)
to leave (on a long journey) / to part from sb
to disassociate / to drift away / to leave (a collective) / free (component)
to sow dissension (idiom); to drive a wedge between
impossible to unravel / confusing
destitute and homeless (idiom); forced from one's home and wandering about / displaced
to be at odds with / centrifugal (force)
the appearance of unity, but divided at heart (idiom); seeming harmony belies underlying disagreement
to retire / to leave work and rest (euphemism for compulsory retirement of old cadres)
negative ion / anion (physics)

Sentences with 离

离 currently does not appear in any sentence.