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冽

冽

冽 U+51BD, 冽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51BD
← 冼
[U+51BC] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 冾 →
[U+51BE]
See also: 洌

Translingual

Han character

冽 (radical 15 冫+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈一一弓弓 (IMMNN), four-corner 32100, composition ⿰冫列)

  1. cold and raw
  2. pure, clear

References

  • KangXi: page 132, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1637
  • Dae Jaweon: page 296, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 297, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+51BD

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 冽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (列) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
例 *reds
鮤 *reds, *red
栵 *reds, *red
洌 *reds, *red
銐 *r'eds, *r̥ʰjeds
峛 *relʔ
列 *red
裂 *red
烈 *red
冽 *red
迾 *red
蛚 *red
茢 *red
颲 *red
鴷 *red
挒 *red
姴 *red

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 冽
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 薛 (81)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 良辥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /liat̚/
Li
Rong		 /liɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /lĭɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯ɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 liè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 冽
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 liè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.r[a]t/
English cold, raw

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 冽
Reading # 1/1
No. 8131
Phonetic
component		 列
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*red/

Definitions

冽

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Compounds

  • 冷冽
  • 冽冽
  • 冽泉
  • 冽霜
  • 凜冽／凛冽 (lǐnliè)
  • 凜凜冽冽／凛凛冽冽
  • 慄冽／栗冽
  • 泠冽
  • 清冽
  • 甘冽

Japanese

Kanji

冽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Proper noun

冽 ‎(hiragana ただし, romaji Tadashi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

冽 • ‎(ryeol) (hangeul 렬, revised ryeol, McCune-Reischauer ryŏl)

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