liè
split
Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 列 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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。” |
Sources
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