列 — file, row, rank

れつ列 file

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+5217 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #927 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #875 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

file
row
rank
tier
column

word

れつ retsu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

列(れつ) retsu row 行(ぎょう) 列(れつ) gyouretsu line 配(はい) 列(れつ) hairetsu arrangement 参(さん) 列(れつ) sanretsu attendance 系(けい) 列(れつ) keiretsu series 並(へい) 列(れつ) heiretsu parallel 陳(ちん) 列(れつ) chinretsu display

れっ re Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

列(れっ) 車(しゃ) ressha train 列(れっ) 島(とう) rettou archipelago 列(れっ) 挙(きょ) rekkyo enumeration

Appears in idioms

年功序列四字熟語

year, achievement, preface, file

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

歹 death

刂 knife (right form)

Used as component in (3)

れい例 example れつ裂 split れつ烈 ardent

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#18 刀 knife