烈

Four-dots fire radical at the bottom — flame form of 火, marking heat and combustion from below. Carries the meaning of 烈: intense fire, fierce blaze, by extension intense in any sense — passionate, severe, heroic. Sits with 热 hot, 煮 boil, 焦 scorched, 烈士 (a martyr, literally 'fire-fierce gentleman'). The flames lick upward from underneath.

Top 列 supplies the sound directly — same liè with no shift. 列 itself depicts bones laid out in a row (歹 + 刂), giving the original sense of arranging. In 烈 the row-of-bones imagery carries a faint chill that pairs well with raging fire: a martyr's death, a fierce conflagration. Same phonetic in 例 example, 裂 split, 咧 grin.