The invention discloses a separating type shearing knife, and belongs to the technical field of metal cutting. A groove 7 is formed in the front surface of a knife rest, and a threaded hole is formed in the groove; an upper blade consists of 5-10 blade units, each blade unit is fixedly connected to the threaded hole in the groove through a bolt, and the 5-10 blade units are transversely and tightly arranged in the groove; a lower blade is fixedly connected to a front upper corner of the base; and a distance h12 between a perpendicular cutting edge of the lower blade and the back surface of the cutting edge of each blade unit is 2-4mm. According to the separating type shearing knife disclosed by the invention, the tip parts of the blade units are manufactured to be triangular, and the knife tips can effectively increase shearing penetrating capacity, so that the shearing resistance is reduced, and the efficiency is improved; meanwhile, each position of the knife body during shearing is different in stress impact, so that the invalid blade unit can be independently replaced when local blade unit is invalid, and therefore, the cost is reduced; and meanwhile, the combined type upper blade carries out transverse shearing motion, so that the roughness of a sheared surface of a sheared material is reduced, and processing precision is improved.