擂 — Chinese character
擂
léi
to rub, to grind; to use a mortar and pestle
- Pinyin
- léi
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 扌 雷
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 雷
- Japanese
- 擂 as a kanji
Common words with 擂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 擂台 (擂臺) | lèi tái | elevated stage on which martial competitions or duels were held; arena |
| 擂台赛 (擂臺賽) | lèi tái sài | single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated) |
| 自吹自擂 | zì chuī zì léi | to blow one's own trumpet (idiom) |
| 擂鼓 | léi gǔ | to beat a drum |
| 打擂台 (打擂臺) | dǎ lèi tái | (old) to fight on the leitai; (fig.) to enter a contest |
| 大吹大擂 | dà chuī dà léi | to make an exhibition of oneself; ostentation |
| 擂茶 | léi chá | "leicha", a beverage or gruel made from tea leaves, roasted peanuts and herbs etc ground into a powder, traditionally consumed by Hakka people and in the north |
| 吹擂 | chuī léi | to talk big; to boast |
| 擂鼓鸣金 (擂鼓鳴金) | léi gǔ míng jīn | to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat; to egg people on or to call them back |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.