Chinese symbol for “gaunt”
累累
léi léi
(literary) (of fruit, achievements etc) clusters of; piles of; heaps of; (literary) gaunt; haggard; wretched; Taiwan pr. [lei3 lei3]
The closest CC-CEDICT match for gaunt is 累累 (léi léi), defined as: (literary) (of fruit, achievements etc) clusters of; piles of; heaps of; (literary) gaunt; haggard; wretched; Taiwan pr. [lei3 lei3].
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 累累.
| 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 |
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.