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
Evolution

Bronze script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
liè
a line; to arrange in order, classify; to arrange; to line up; file; series; (in data tables) column; (Tw) row
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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