冽

冽

See also: 洌

冽 U+51BD, 冽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51BD ← 冼 [U+51BC] CJK Unified Ideographs 冾 → [U+51BE]

Translingual

Han character

冽 (radical 15, 冫+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈一一弓弓 (IMMNN), four-corner 3210₀, composition ⿰冫列)

1. cold and raw
2. pure, clear

References

• KangXi: page 132, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1637
• Dae Jaweon: page 296, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 297, character 2
• Unihan data for U+51BD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		冽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (列) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
例	*reds
鮤	*reds, *red
栵	*reds, *red
洌	*reds, *red
銐	*r'eds, *r̥ʰjeds
峛	*relʔ
列	*red
裂	*red
烈	*red
冽	*red
迾	*red
蛚	*red
茢	*red
颲	*red
鴷	*red
挒	*red
姴	*red

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liè (lie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lit⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): lia̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: liè
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade–Giles: lieh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lieh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liè
    • IPA ^(key): /ljɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lit⁶
    • Yale: liht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lid⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /liːt̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia̍t
    • Tâi-lô: lia̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liat
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɛt̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɛt̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɛt̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /liᴇt̚/▼

Rime
Character	冽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	薛 (81)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	良辥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/liɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ljæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/liat̚/
Li Rong	/liɛt̚/
Wang Li	/lĭɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	liè

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.r[a]t/

  (Zhengzhang): /*red/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	冽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	liè
Middle Chinese	‹ ljet ›
Old Chinese	/*C.r[a]t/
English	cold, raw
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	冽
Reading #	1/1
No.	8131
Phonetic component	列
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*red/

Definitions

冽

1. cold and raw
2. pure, clear

Compounds

冷冽 冽冽 冽泉 冽霜

凜冽／凛冽 (lǐnliè) 凜凜冽冽／凛凛冽冽 慄冽／栗冽

泠冽 清冽 甘冽

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Japanese

Kanji

冽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): れつ (retsu); れい (rei)
• Kun: さむい (samui); つめたい (tsumetai)

Proper noun

冽 (hiragana ただし, rōmaji Tadashi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

冽 (eum 렬 (ryeol))

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Vietnamese

Han character

冽: Hán Nôm readings: liệt

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