Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons

列: file, row

Also: rank, tier, column

JLPT N36 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

歹 and 刂 carry the meaning

6 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

レツretsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 列れつline
  • 列車れっしゃtrain
  • 列島れっとうchain of islands
  • 行列ぎょうれつline, procession, matrix
  • 前列ぜんれつfront row
  • 後列こうれつback row
  • 系列けいれつa group of businesses
  • 列挙するれっきょするenumerate, list
  • 整列するせいれつするstand in a row [v.i.]

Also read レ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Slice through it! This "standing knife" radical is all about precision and force.”
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繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
歹

Also built on death (歹)

All 5
刂

Also built on knife (刂)

All 27

列 gives its sound to

The family reading is レツ (retsu). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read レツ

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
列 file · 刂
vs死 death · 匕
列 has 刂 where 死 has 匕.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · liè

Same form: 列 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
列 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
列 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin liè most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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