Chinese Character Wiki
列

liè

arrange

Original meaning: 

break apart

Depicts breaking apart bones (歹) using a knife (刂). 歹 also represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "break apart". The meaning later shifted to "arrange in order" and "list".

Components
歹 sound,iconic component

歹  Sound Iconic component

dǎi

  

evil, bad

Depicts bones.

刂 iconic component

刂  Iconic component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

列 Bronze script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Bronze script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
列 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
列 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
列 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

列  

liè

a line; to arrange in order, classify; to arrange; to line up; file; series; (in data tables) column; (Tw) row

Most common words with 列
Freq.
Word
Meaning

系列

series

列

file

以色列

Israel

列车

(railway) train

一系列

a series of

Component uses

Sound component in 7 characters (2 verified)

例 烈 裂 咧 洌 冽 趔

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r][e]t

ljet

liè

tear apart; rank


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 34.1022% of movies

1030th most common character in movies

500th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5217

Shuowen

“列，分解也。从刀，聲。”


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