Memory phrase for the character: 列

列

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Meaning

row, to arrange, to line up, series

Pronunciation

 liè

Explanation

 Left: evil, bad 歹 (image of a bare bone, vertebra), right: knife 刂

Mnemonic
 
(i.e. backbone) The bones are lain bare by knife: arranged in a row.

Radicals

列 row, to arrangeA bare bone 歹 (e.g. dorsal vertebrae) that has been opened with a knife刂 so that the vertebrae are lined up.
歹 bad, wickedActually the representation of a bone or dorsal vertebra.
刂 cutIt is typically at the right side of the character.
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 Vocabulary

下列 xià liè  following
澎湖列岛 Péng hú liè dǎo  Pescadores Islands, Taiwan
奄列 yǎn liè  omelet
勃列日涅夫 Bó liè rì niè fū  Leonid Brezhnev
门捷列夫 Mén jié liè fū  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table
列举 liè jǔ  a list; to list; to enumerate
列出 liè chū  to list; to make a list
排列 pái liè  array; arrangement; permutation (i.e. ordered choice of n elements out of m)
列宁 Liè níng  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader
列车 liè chē  train (railway term)
以色列 Yǐ sè liè  Israel
以色列 Yǐ sè liè  

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