列
Mnemonic
A lightning strike slashes down from the storm, searing a long straight groove into the earth. You pull out a knife and carve evenly spaced notches along that scorched groove, transforming it into a perfect Row / Line of planting markers stretching to the horizon.
Additional thoughts
Picture the lightning bolt itself as one vertical line, and the knife notches as the items lined up along it — together they form the structured pattern of a row.Quick recall
A lightning strike carves a groove; a knife notches it into a perfect Row / Line.Details
The keyword for 列 is row / line. This kanji refers to a series of things or people arranged in an orderly sequence, such as a row or line of objects standing side by side or one behind another. It conveys the idea of alignment and ordered arrangement, and is used in contexts involving queues, columns, ranks, or any systematic linear formation.
- On'yomi
- れつ、れ