Chinese symbol for “accumulate”
积累
jī lěi
Traditional: 積累
to accumulate; accumulation; cumulative; cumulatively
The closest CC-CEDICT match for accumulate is 积累 (jī lěi), defined as: to accumulate; accumulation; cumulative; cumulatively.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “accumulate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 累 | lěi | to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lei4]) |
| 累积 (累積) | lěi jī | to accumulate |
| 蕴 (蘊) | yùn | to accumulate; to hold in store |
| 蓄积 (蓄積) | xù jī | to accumulate; to store up |
| 积 (積) | jī | to amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math.) product (the result of multiplication) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 积累.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 面积 (面積) | miàn jī | area (of a floor, piece of land etc); surface area |
| 积极 (積極) | jī jí | active; energetic |
| 积分 (積分) | jī fēn | integral (calculus); accumulated points (in sports, at school etc) |
| 累积 (累積) | lěi jī | to accumulate |
| 体积 (體積) | tǐ jī | volume (amount of space an object occupies) |
| 累计 (累計) | lěi jì | to calculate the running total; cumulative |
| 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] |
See also: Japanese symbol for “accumulate”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.