烈

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烈 U+70C8, 烈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70C8
← 烇
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 烉 →
烈 U+F99F, 烈
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F99F
← 咽
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 裂 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

trad. 烈
simp. # 烈
alternative forms 煭
𤉩
烮
𤋴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 烈
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *red) : phonetic 列 (OC *red) + semantic 灬 (“fire”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • liêg8 - Chaozhou;
  • liag8 - Shantou.
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
Baxter ljet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/liɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/liat̚/
Li
Rong 		/liɛt̚/
Wang
Li 		/lĭɛt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯ɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		liè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lit6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 烈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		liè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljet ›
Old
Chinese 		/*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. * 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. (literary or Hokkien) fiery; blazing
    烈火  ―  lièhuǒ  ―  raging fire
    鼎火真烈。 [Hokkien, trad. and simp.]
    Tiáⁿ hé chin lia̍t. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    The fire on the wok was blazing.
  2. (literary or Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) intense; fierce
    拍戰拍甲真烈。 [Hokkien, trad.]
    拍战拍甲真烈。 [Hokkien, simp.]
    Phah-chiàn phah kah chin lia̍t. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    The battle was fought very intensely.
  3. (literary) bright; brilliant
  4. (literary) to burn
  5. (literary) vehement; ardent; extreme
  6. (literary) staunch; upright; strong
  7. (honorific) person who dies for a special cause; martyr
  8. (literary) merits; exploits; achievements
  9. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

烈

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. intense

Readings

  • Go-on: れち (rechi)
  • Kan-on: れつ (retsu, Jōyō)
  • Kun: はげしい (hageshii, 烈しい)
  • Nanori: やす (yasu)

Proper noun

烈(れつ) • (Retsu) 

  1. (rare) a unisex given name

Korean

Hanja

烈 (eumhun 세찰 렬 (sechal ryeol), word-initial (South Korea) 세찰 열 (sechal yeol))

  1. hanja form? of ] (“fiery, violent, vehement, ardent”)

Vietnamese

Han character

烈: Hán Nôm readings: liệt, lét, lẹt, lết, lướt, rét, rẹt, riệt

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