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