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烈

liè

HSK 5 Character

What 烈 means

1. ardent
2. intense
3. fierce
4. stern
5. upright
6. to give one's life for a noble cause
7. exploits
8. achievements

Example sentences

• 父亲不喝烈酒。
  Fùqīn bù hē lièjiǔ.
  My father drinks no spirits.
• 我强烈反对妥协
  I am strongly opposed to a compromise.
• 他有强烈的责任感。
  Tā yǒu qiángliè de zérèngǎn.
  He has a strong sense of responsibility.
• 这种威士忌太烈了。
  This whisky is too strong.
• 这瓶威士忌太烈了。
  This whiskey is too strong.
• 那个感情非常强烈。
  The feeling was really strong.

Words starting with 烈

• 烈士liè shìmartyr
• 烈日liè rìscorching sun
• 烈火liè huǒraging inferno; blaze
• 烈酒liè jiǔstrong alcoholic drink
• 烈焰liè yànraging flames
• 烈性liè xìngstrong; intense; spirited; virulent
• 烈女liè nǚa woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death
• 烈属liè shǔfamily or dependents of martyr (in PRC, esp. revolutionary martyr)
• 烈度liè dùintensity
• 烈马liè mǎspirited or untamed horse
• 烈山区Liè shān QūLieshan, a district of Huaibei City 淮北市
• 烈怒liè nùintense rage
• 烈士陵liè shì língmemorial mound; heroes' memorial
• 烈山Liè shānsee 烈山区
• 烈火干柴liè huǒ gān cháisee 干柴烈火

Words containing 烈

• 强烈qiáng lièstrong; intense
• 激烈jī liè(of competition or fighting) intense; fierce; (of pain) acute
• 热烈rè lièenthusiastic; ardent; warm
• 剧烈jù lièviolent; acute; severe; fierce
• 猛烈měng lièfierce; violent; vigorous; intense
• 兴高采烈xìng gāo cǎi lièhappy and excited (idiom); in high spirits; in great delight
• 壮烈zhuàng lièbrave; heroic
• 轰轰烈烈hōng hōng liè lièstrong; vigorous; large-scale
• 浓烈nóng lièstrong (taste, flavor, smell)
• 安德烈Ān dé lièAndre (person name)
• 惨烈cǎn lièbitter; desperate
• 愈演愈烈yù yǎn yù lièever more critical; problems get more and more intense
• 忽必烈Hū bì lièKhubilai Khan (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan 成吉思汗, first Yuan dynasty emperor…
• 英烈yīng lièhero; martyr; heroic
• 先烈xiān lièmartyr
• 刚烈gāng lièresolute and upright in character; unyielding; staunch
• 炽烈chì lièburning fiercely; flaming; blazing
• 暴烈bào lièviolent; fierce
• 功烈gōng lièachievement
• 威烈wēi lièfierce; formidable
• 节烈jié liè(of a woman) indomitably chaste
• 鲜烈xiān lièfresh and intense; vivid
• 张自烈Zhāng Zì lièZhang Zilie (1597-1673), Ming dynasty scholar, author of Zhengzitong 正字通
• 拉那烈Lā nà lièPrince Norodom Ranariddh (1944-), Cambodian politician and son of former King Sihanouk of…

Characters built on 列

These share the phonetic component 列 (liè), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 裂lièto split; to crack; to break open
• 咧liēused in 咧咧; used in 大大咧咧; used in 骂骂咧咧
• 冽liècold and raw
• 趔lièused in 趔趄
• 洌lièpure; to cleanse

Characters that look like 烈

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 载zǎito record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. zài
• 距jùto be at a distance of ... from; to be apart from; (bound form) distance…
• 耗hàoto waste; to spend; to consume
• 剃tìto shave
• 荆jīngchaste tree or its berry (Vitex agnus-castus); (literary) cane or switch made from a…
• 躬gōng(literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself…

Sounds the same

Read liè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 列to arrange; to line up; file
• 劣inferior
• 裂to split; to crack; to break open
• 猎hunting
• 冽cold and raw
• 洌pure; to cleanse
• 鬣bristles; mane
• 劦unending exertion
• 捩tear; twist
• 趔used in 趔趄
• 埒(literary) equal; enclosure; dike
• 躐step across