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裂

liè

split

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 列 represents the sound.

Components
衣 meaning component

衣  Meaning component

yī, yì

  

clothes

列 sound component

列  Sound component

liè

  

arrange

Evolution

裂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

裂  

liè

split, crack, break open; rend; to split; to crack; to break open; to rend

Most common words with 裂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

分裂

to split up

裂缝

crack

裂

to split

破裂

to rupture

断裂

fracture

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]at

ljet

liè

to cut, split


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 18.6449% of movies

1490th most common character in movies

1317th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+88C2

Shuowen

“裂，繒餘也。从衣，聲。”


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