The kanji 烈: meaning, readings and stroke order
烈
- Meaning
- fierce, intense
- On reading
- レツ retsu
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 火 fire
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- mãnh liệt, dữ dội (liệt)
- Japanese
- とても はげしい。
- Korean
- 세차다, 맹렬하다 (렬·열)
- Chinese
- 猛烈、强烈
Readings, words and example sentences
レツ retsu · on reading
強烈
intense, very strong
強烈な 日ざしです。
The sunlight is intense.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.