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Mythic Mandarin

惨烈 (cǎn liè): meaning and stroke order

惨烈 (cǎn liè) means bitter, desperate.

惨烈

Simplified
惨烈
Traditional
慘烈
Pinyin
cǎn liè

Stroke order of 惨烈

惨

  • cǎn miserable; wretched
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 慘

Stroke by stroke

烈

  • liè ardent; intense
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 惨烈

  1. cǎn liè Traditional 慘烈
    • bitter
    • desperate

Radicals of the characters

惨
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 11 strokes · 忄 on the left, 参 on the right
烈
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 10 strokes · 列 on top, 灬 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

惨烈 in our stories

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  • 说完，他割下自己的肉还给母亲，剔出自己的骨头还给父亲，以这样惨烈的方式了结了这场恩怨。

    shuōwán tā gē xià zìjǐ de ròu huángěi mǔqīn tī chū zìjǐ de gǔtou huángěi fùqīn yǐ zhèyàng cǎnliè de fāngshì liǎojié le zhè cháng ēnyuàn

    With that he cut off his flesh to return it to his mother and cut out his bones to return them to his father, ending the feud in this terrible way.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 惨烈

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).