烈
liè HSK3

fiery, intense

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Phonosemantic compound. 灬 represents the meaning and 列 represents the sound.

Components

列
列 Sound component
灬
灬 Meaning component

灬 is a component form of 火.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Xin 9-23 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartljet[r]at blazing; brilliant

說文解字

《說文》：“烈，火猛也。从火，聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)