烈

liè

Definitions

1. ardent
2. intense
3. fierce
4. stern
5. upright
6. to give one's life for a noble cause
7. exploits
8. achievements

Words Containing 烈

• 烈怒 liè nù: intense rage
• 惨烈 cǎn liè: bitter
• 刚烈 gāng liè: resolute and upright in character
• 越演越烈 yuè yǎn yuè liè: to be intensifying
• 烈士陵 liè shì líng: memorial mound
• 酷烈 kù liè: intense
• 烈屿乡 liè yǔ xiāng: Liehyu township in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县[jīn mén xiàn] (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan
• 烈属 liè shǔ: family or dependents of martyr (in PRC, esp. revolutionary martyr)
• 贞烈 zhēn liè: ready to die to preserve one's chastity
• 愈演愈烈 yù yǎn yù liè: ever more critical
• 浓烈 nóng liè: strong (taste, flavor, smell)
• 虎烈拉 hǔ liè lā: cholera (loanword)
• 激烈 jī liè: (of competition or fighting) intense
• 烈焰 liè yàn: raging flames
• 烈山 liè shān: Lieshan district of Huaibei city 淮北市[huái běi shì], Anhui
• 轰轰烈烈 hōng hōng liè liè: strong
• 革命烈士 gé mìng liè shì: martyr of the revolution
• 兴高采烈 xīng gāo cǎi liè: happy and excited (idiom); in high spirits
• 鲜烈 xiān liè: fresh and intense
• 先烈 xiān liè: martyr
• 三贞九烈 sān zhēn jiǔ liè: (of a widow) faithful to the death to her husband's memory
• 英烈 yīng liè: hero
• 节烈 jié liè: (of a woman) indomitably chaste
• 功烈 gōng liè: achievement
• 烈山区 liè shān qū: Lieshan district of Huaibei city 淮北市[huái běi shì], Anhui
• 剧烈 jù liè: violent; acute; severe; fierce
• 叶永烈 yè yǒng liè: Ye Yonglie (1940-), popular science writer
• 威烈 wēi liè: fierce
• 烈性 liè xìng: strong; intense; spirited; virulent
• 强烈 qiáng liè: strong; intense
• 地震烈度 dì zhèn liè dù: earthquake intensity (measure of its destructive power)
• 高能烈性炸药 gāo néng liè xìng zhà yào: high explosive
• 张自烈 zhāng zì liè: Zhang Zilie (1597-1673), Ming dynasty scholar, author of Zhengzitong 正字通[zhèng zì tōng]
• 亚弗烈 yà fú liè: Alfred (name)
• 烈士 liè shì: martyr
• 革命先烈 gé mìng xiān liè: martyr to the revolution
• 兴高采烈 xìng gāo cǎi liè: happy and excited (idiom)
• 安德烈 ān dé liè: Andre (person name)
• 黄花岗七十二烈士 huáng huā gāng qī shí èr liè shì: the seventy two martyrs of the Huanghuagang uprising of 23rd April 1911
• 耶烈万 yē liè wàn: Yerevan, capital of Armenia
• 热烈 rè liè: enthusiastic
• 强烈反对 qiáng liè fǎn duì: to oppose strongly
• 烈酒 liè jiǔ: strong alcoholic drink
• 劲烈 jìng liè: violent
• 疾风知劲草，烈火见真金 jí fēng zhī jìn cǎo , liè huǒ jiàn zhēn jīn: fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis
• 忠烈 zhōng liè: sacrifice oneself for one's country
• 猛烈 měng liè: fierce
• 烈日 liè rì: Liege, town in Belgium
• 忽必烈 hū bì liè: Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan 成吉思汗, first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294
• 烈度 liè dù: intensity
• 烈女 liè nǚ: a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death
• 炽烈 chì liè: burning fiercely
• 烈火 liè huǒ: raging inferno
• 烈屿 liè yǔ: Liehyu township in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县[jīn mén xiàn] (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan
• 烈火干柴 liè huǒ gān chái: lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile
• 火烈鸟 huǒ liè niǎo: flamingo
• 暴烈 bào liè: violent
• 壮烈 zhuàng liè: brave