累 — Chinese character
累
lèi
tired; to accumulate; to involve; bother, nuisance
- Pinyin
- lèi
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 田 糸
- Formation
- ideographic — Simplified form of 纍; growing silk 糸 in the fields 畾; 畾 also provides the pronunciation
- Traditional
- 纍
- Japanese
- 累 as a kanji
Common words with 累
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 积累 (積累) | jī lěi | to accumulate; accumulation |
| 累计 (累計) | lěi jì | to calculate the running total; cumulative |
| 累积 (累積) | lěi jī | to accumulate |
| 拖累 | tuō lěi | to encumber; to be a burden on |
| 连累 (連累) | lián lei | to implicate; to get (sb) into trouble; also pr. [lian2lei3] or [lian2lei4] |
| 劳累 (勞累) | láo lèi | tired; exhausted |
| 累累 | léi léi | (literary) (of fruit, achievements etc) clusters of; piles of; heaps of; (literary) gaunt; haggard; wretched |
| 累累 | lěi lěi | again and again; innumerable |
| 累累 (纍纍) | léi léi | variant of 累累 (léi léi) |
| 累赘 (累贅) | léi zhui | superfluous; cumbersome; burdensome; a burden; an encumbrance |
| 伤痕累累 (傷痕累累) | shāng hén lěi lěi | cuts and bruises all over the body |
| 负债累累 (負債累累) | fù zhài lěi lěi | deep in debt |
English words written with 累
- tired
- repeated
- burden
- accumulated
- drained
- accumulation
- cumulative
- accumulate
- taxing
- cumbersome
- gaunt
- burdensome
累 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 29
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 64
- Mencius 1B.11
- Zhuangzi Opening Trunks
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi The Tao of God
- Zhuangzi Self-Conceit
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi Perfect Happiness
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