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烈

JLPT N1 10 strokes Frequency: #1397

Meanings

Ardent, Violent, Vehement, Furious, Severe, Extreme

Radicals

灬

Decomposition

⿱列灬

Etymology

Pictophonetic: fire

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 10

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

3 corner top-to-bottom

4 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

5 vertical right-to-left

6 hook right-to-left

7 dot bottom-to-top

8 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

9 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

10 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

レツ retsu

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

はげ hage

Words Using This Kanji

34 words total

Other (14 words)

unswerving loyalty

harshness

heroism

very strange

horrible

extreme faithfulness

fervent

go-getter employee

severe criticism

achievements of one's ancestors

迅雷風烈じんらいふうれつ

violent thunder and fierce wind

烈火のごとくれっかのごとく

(being angry) like a blazing fire

奇妙奇天烈きみょうきてれつ

extremely weird

偉烈いれつ

great achievement

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