烈
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ardent; intense; fierce; stern; upright; to give one's life for a noble cause; exploits; achievements
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 火 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 烈
- Common rank
- #1,276
- Unicode
- U+70C8
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
intense · Heisig RSH #714
列 line up + cooking fire
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 烈
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烈山区 | Lieshan, a district of Huaibei City 淮北市[Huai2 bei3 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 疾风知劲草，烈火见真金 | lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds and true gold stands the test of fire (idiom); fig… | |
| 安德烈 | Andre (person name) | |
| 强烈反对 | to oppose strongly; violently opposed to | |
| 黄花岗七十二烈士 | the seventy two martyrs of the Huanghuagang uprising of 23rd April 1911 | |
| 火烈鸟 | flamingo | |
| 虎烈拉 | (loanword) cholera | |
| 地震烈度 | earthquake intensity (measure of its destructive power) | |
| 张自烈 | Zhang Zilie (1597-1673), Ming dynasty scholar, author of Zhengzitong 正字通[Zheng4 zi4 tong1] | |
| 兴高彩烈 | variant of 興高采烈|兴高采烈[xing4 gao1 cai3 lie4] | |
| 烈山 | see 烈山區|烈山区[Lie4 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 烈马 | spirited or untamed horse | |
| 烈性 | strong; intense; spirited; virulent | |
| 无名烈士墓 | tomb of the unknown soldier | |
| 烈日 | Liege, town in Belgium | |
| 烈日 | scorching sun | |
| 兴高采烈 | happy and excited (idiom); in high spirits; in great delight | |
| 拉那烈 | Prince Norodom Ranariddh (1944-), Cambodian politician and son of former King Sihanouk of … | |
| 烈火 | raging inferno; blaze | |
| 革命烈士 | martyr of the revolution |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 列 — compare how they read.