liè

cold and raw

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
冫 meaning component

  Meaning component

bīng

  

ice

is a component form of .

列 sound component

  Sound component

liè

  

arrange

Definitions

 

liè

cold and raw; pure, clear

Most common words with 冽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凛冽

biting cold

cold and raw

冷冽

chilly

朔风凛冽

The north wind is icy cold.

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.r[a]t

ljet

liè

cold, raw


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4356th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+51BD


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