Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

烈: ardent, violent

Also: vehement, furious, severe, extreme

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

灬 carries the meaning · 列 gives the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

レツretsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 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

Also read はげしい, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“These four dots are flames under a cooking pot! When you see 灬 at the bottom of a kanji, imagine a fire heating something from below.”
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
列

Also built on file (列)

烈 takes the 列 family's reading, レツ (retsu).

灬

Also built on fire (灬)

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Also read レツ

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
烈 ardent · 灬
vs例 example · 亻
烈 has 灬 where 例 has 亻.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · liè

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

Simplified
烈 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
烈 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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