烈 (liè)
intense; fierce; strong (sun/alcohol)
How 烈 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 歹 — death/decay
- Traditional
- 烈
- Simplified
- 烈 (unchanged)
Components
- 歹 death/decay
- 刂 knife
- 灬 fire
Common words using 烈
- 強烈 qiángliè
- intense; (violently) strong
- 激烈 jīliè
- intense; acute; fierce
- 烈日 lièrì
- Liege, town in Belgium
- 烈火 lièhuǒ
- raging inferno; blaze
- 剛烈 gāngliè
- resolute and upright in character; unyielding; staunch
- 劇烈 jùliè
- violent; acute; severe
- 壯烈 zhuàngliè
- brave; heroic
- 慘烈 cǎnliè
- bitter; desperate
- 濃烈 nóngliè
- strong (taste, flavor, smell)
- 烈士 lièshì
- martyr
- 熱烈 rèliè
- warm (welcome etc)
- 猛烈 měngliè
- fierce; violent (criticism etc)
烈 in a sentence
今天太陽很烈，出門要擦防曬油。
Jīntiān tàiyáng hěn liè, chūmén yào cā fángshàiyóu.
“The sun is very intense today; put on sunscreen before going out.”
How common is 烈?
烈 is the 800th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85.3% of all running text.
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