Chinese symbol for “burdensome”
累赘
léi zhui
Traditional: 累贅
superfluous; cumbersome; burdensome; a burden; an encumbrance; to burden; to inconvenience; (of speech or writing) long-winded
The closest CC-CEDICT match for burdensome is 累赘 (léi zhui), defined as: superfluous; cumbersome; burdensome; a burden; an encumbrance; to burden; to inconvenience; (of speech or writing) long-winded; Taiwan pr. [lei3zhui4].
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “burdensome”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 累赘.
| 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 |
| 赘肉 (贅肉) | zhuì ròu | excess flesh; unwanted fat; flab; bulge |
| 赘述 (贅述) | zhuì shù | to say more than is necessary; to give unnecessary details |
See also: Japanese symbol for “burdensome”.
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.