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烈

烈

Translingual

Han character

烈 (radical 86 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一弓火 (MNF), four-corner 12330, composition ⿱列灬)

References

  • KangXi: page 669, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18987
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1078, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2201, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+70C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 烈

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 烈
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 烈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 liè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]at/
English blazing; brilliant

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 烈
Reading # 1/1
No. 8130
Phonetic
component		 列
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*red/

Definitions

烈

  1. fiery; violent
  2. vehement; ardent; extreme
  3. staunch; upright
  4. (honorific) person who dies for a special cause
  5. merits; exploits

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

烈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

烈 • ‎(ryeol>yeol) (hangeul 렬>열, revised ryeol>yeol, McCune-Reischauer ryŏl>yŏl, Yale lyel>yel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

烈 (liệt, lét, lẹt, lết, lướt, rét, rẹt, riệt)

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