LIE

Most characters spoken as 'lie', in any tone, contain as sou.nd-determining element the character 列 = lie(4) = to put things in order.

lie(1)

lie(2)

lie(3)

lie(4)

列 = to put in order, to arrange

This character is of the meaning-meaning type. The 歹 = dai(3) in it means 'evil'.  It also occurs in 死 = si(3) = to die, dead.刂 is the side radical version of 刀 = dao(1) = knife. To 'cut out evil' can be thought of as putting things in order.

烈 = to die for a just cause

烈士 = martyr

The composition of the character 烈 is of the sound-meaning kind, as it combines the character 列 = lie(4), as sound-determining element, with the fire radical 灬.

士 = shi(4) means 'knight'. It it is nowadays seldom used as an independent word, but is part of many two-character words and of many complicated characters.