The Chinese Radical: 列


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Meaning
row, to arrange    列

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 4
row, to arrange, to line up, series
liè
Left: evil, bad (image of a bare bone, vertebra), right: knife
(i.e. backbone) The bones are lain bare by knife: arranged in a row.
JLPT HSK 4
example, precedent, rule, instance

Left: person , right: row (A [back-]bone is exposed with a knife in a row.)
A person queuing in a line/row sets an example.
JLPT HSK 5
burning fiercely, intense, ardent
liè
Top: row (wicked [bar bone] is exposed with a knife in a row [i.e. backbone]), bottom: fire
A row of fires burns fiercely.
JLPT HSK 6
to tear, split, crack, to break open, to rend
liè
Top: row (wicked [= bar bone] is exposed with a knife in a row [i.e. backbone]), bottom: clothes
In a row (=direction of looming) clothes are teared.
JLPT no HSK
child's cry, draw back corners of mouth
liē, liě
Left: mouth , right: row (wicked [bar bone] is exposed with a knife in a row [i.e. backbone])
If the mouth is (long as) a row: it is crying.

Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.

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