列
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to arrange; to line up; file; series; (in data tables) column; (Tw) row
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 刀 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 列
- Common rank
- #516
- Unicode
- U+5217
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
line up · Heisig RSH #713
bones + saber
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 列
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿列克西斯 | Alexis (name) | |
| 海上花列传 | "The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai", a novel by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶|韩邦庆[Han2 Bang1 qing4] depic… | |
| 空中分列 | (military) flyover | |
| 马列主义 | Marxism-Leninism | |
| 布列斯特 | Brest, town in Belarus | |
| 大列巴 | big Russian-style bread (loanword from Russian "хлеб") | |
| 大安的列斯 | see 大安的列斯群島|大安的列斯群岛[Da4 an1 di4 lie4 si1 Qun2 dao3] | |
| 巴拉基列夫 | M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer | |
| 马克思列宁主义 | Marxism-Leninism | |
| 列车长 | conductor; train manager | |
| 以色列人 | an Israeli; an Israelite | |
| 普罗列塔利亚 | proletariat (loanword) | |
| 工作列 | taskbar (computing) (Tw) | |
| 列治文 | Richmond (place name or surname) | |
| 列宁主义 | Leninism | |
| 大安的列斯群岛 | the Greater Antilles, Caribbean island group including Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dom… | |
| 圣安地列斯断层 | San Andreas Fault, California; also written 聖安德列斯斷層|圣安德列斯断层 | |
| 行列式 | determinant (math.) | |
| 分列式 | (military) march-past | |
| 圣安德列斯断层 | San Andreas Fault, California |
Sound family
These characters use 列 as their sound component — compare how they read.