U+51BD "冽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

冽

U+51BD "冽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means cold, frigid, or icy, often used to describe the biting chill of wind or water, as in the word "凛冽" (lǐnliè) meaning bitterly cold. It is composed of the radical 冫 (ice, representing coldness) on the left, combined with the phonetic component 列 (liè) on the right, which also suggests the meaning of arranging or a series, though in this context it contributes to the sound and connotation of sharpness or intensity. This character appears in classical literature, weather descriptions, and poetic language to evoke a sense of piercing cold, and it is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoded for use in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+51BD
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	冽
HTML Hex Encoding	冽
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x86 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x51BD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000051BD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u51bd

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	A8E6
kCCCII	21333F
kCNS1986	1-4C29
kCNS1992	1-4C29
kCangjie	IMMNN
kCantonese	lit6
kCihaiT	169.204
kDaeJaweon	0296.040
kDefinition	cold and raw; pure, clear
kEACC	4B4741
kFanqie	良辥
kFourCornerCode	3210.0
kGB0	5793
kGB1	5793
kGSR	0291b
kHangul	렬:0N
kHanYu	10297.020
kHanyuPinyin	10297.020:liè
kHKGlyph	0308
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0296.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10297.020
kIRGKangXi	0132.150
kIRG_GSource	G0-597D
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A8E6
kIRG_JSource	J0-5158
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D8B0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5629
kIRG_TSource	T1-4C29
kIRG_VSource	V1-4C62
kJapanese	レツレイレチ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:3994
kJapaneseKun	SAMUI TSUMETAI
kJapaneseOn	RETSU REI
kJis0	4956
kKangXi	0132.150
kKorean	LYEL
kMainlandTelegraph	0399
kMandarin	liè
kMatthews	3985
kMeyerWempe	1597a
kMojiJoho	MJ007379
kMorohashi	01637
kNelson	0643
kPhonetic	814
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4239+15.2.6
kRSUnicode	15.6
kSBGY	497.03
kSMSZD2003Index	52.14 60.11
kSMSZD2003Readings	liè粵lit6
kTaiwanTelegraph	0399
kTGHZ2013	224.020:liè
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	rét
kXerox	274:154
kXHC1983	0714.010:liè