烈
烈 — ryeol
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 매울 렬
- Romanization
- ryeol
- English
- fiery, violent, vehement, ardent
- Mandarin
- liè
- Japanese on'yomi
- レツ, レチ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- はげ.しい
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,397 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 火 (86, 6 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 列(렬)
- Unicode
- U+70C8
Parts that make up 烈
How 烈 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 烈 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 列, 火.
Korean example words with 烈
- 공렬功烈 Korean gloss: 드높고 큰 공적
- 열한烈寒 Korean gloss: 몹시 심한 추위
- 열녀烈女 Korean gloss: 절개가 굳은 여자
- 열부烈婦 Korean gloss: 절개가 굳은 여자
- 열부烈夫 Korean gloss: 절개가 굳은 남자
- 열행烈行 Korean gloss: 여자가 정절을 훌륭하게 지키는 행위
- 선열先烈 Korean gloss: 나라를 위하여 싸우다가 죽은 열사(烈士)
- 열사烈士 Korean gloss: 나라를 위하여 절의를 굳게 지키며 충성을 다하여 싸운 사람
- 열풍烈風 Korean gloss: 매우 세차게 일어나는 기운이나 기세를 비유적으로 이르는 말
- 방렬하다芳烈 Korean gloss: 몹시 향기가 짙다
- 엄렬하다嚴烈 Korean gloss: 엄격하고 격렬하다
- 장렬하다壯烈 Korean gloss: 장엄하고 비장하다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 烈
- 強烈きょうれつ strong; intense; severe
- 猛烈もうれつ fierce; intense; severe
- 痛烈つうれつ severe; bitter; scathing
- 熱烈ねつれつ ardent; passionate; vehement
- 鮮烈せんれつ vivid; striking
- 激烈げきれつ violence; vehemence; fury
- 烈震れっしん disastrous earthquake
- 壮烈そうれつ heroic; brave
- 偉烈いれつ great achievement
- 苛烈かれつ severe; fierce; stern
- 酷烈こくれつ severity
- 武烈ぶれつ military merit
Characters sharing the phonetic 列
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “렬” in Korean.
Other hanja read “렬”
Other hanja with radical 火
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences