别
Meaning
- to leave; to part (from)
- (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish
- (dialect) to turn away; to turn aside; to avert (one's face, gaze etc)
Example sentence
别担心。
Don't worry.
The character 别
别 sets 刂, a knife, beside 另, other: cutting one thing away from another. Hence separate and distinct — 分别, 区别, 特别, 别的, 别人 — and, in front of a verb, don't: 别走.