冽 — Chinese character
冽
liè
cold and raw; pure, clear
- Pinyin
- liè
- Radical
- 15 ⼎ (Ice)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 冫 列
- Formation
- pictophonetic — ice; meaning component 冫; sound component 列
- Japanese
- 冽 as a kanji
Common words with 冽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 凛冽 (凜冽) | lǐn liè | biting cold |
| 冷冽 | lěng liè | chilly |
| 朔风凛冽 (朔風凜冽) | shuò fēng lǐn liè | The north wind is icy cold. |
English words written with 冽
冽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.