Chinese Word: 累 - Talking Chinese English Dictionary

累 (Trad.: 纍)Polyphone (多音字)HSK 2

Total strokes: 11; Radical: 糸

Ideographic:Simplified form of 纍; growing silk 糸 in the fields 畾; 畾 also provides the pronunciation

Character Formation:

⿱ Above to below
- 田 [ tián ] field, farm, arable land; cultivated
- 糸 [ mì ] silk; thread

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Pinyin: lèi

English Definition:tired; weary; to strain; to wear out; to work hard

Chinese Definition:
①疲乏，过劳：劳累。累乏。
②使疲劳：病刚好，别再累着。

Example Words:

劳累	láo lèi	tired; exhausted; worn out; to toil
受累	shòu lèi	to be put to a lot of trouble
疲累	pí lèi	tired; exhausted
墨累	mò lèi	Murray (name)
达累斯萨拉姆	dá lèi sī sà lā mǔ	Dar es Salaam (former capital of Tanzania)

Pinyin: léi

English Definition:rope; to bind together; to twist around

Chinese Definition:
①(累累)a。连续成串，如“果实累累”；b。颓丧的样子，如“累累若丧家之犬”。
②(累赘)a。多余，不简洁，如“文字累累”；b。使人感到多余或麻烦的事物，如“负重登高，不胜累累”(“赘”均读轻声)。

Example Words:

累累HSK 2	léi léi	(literary) (of fruit, achievements etc) clusters of; piles of; heaps of; gaunt; haggard; wretched; Taiwan pr. lei3 lei3
累赘	léi zhuì	superfluous; cumbersome; a burden on sb; a nuisance to sb; to inconvenience; to tie sb down; long-winded (of writing); also pr. [lei2 zhui5]
累坠HSK 6	léi zhuì	variant of 累赘
弹痕累累	dàn hén léi léi	bullet-ridden

Pinyin: lěi

English Definition:to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lei4]); continuous; repeated

Chinese Definition:
①连续，重叠，堆积：累计。累日。累积。累累。日积月累。连篇累牍。
②照原数目多少而递增：累进税。
③连及，连带：累及。牵累。拖累。

Example Words:

积累HSK 4	jī lěi	to accumulate; accumulation; cumulative; cumulatively
累计	lěi jì	to accumulate; cumulative
累累HSK 2	lěi lěi	again and again; innumerable; repeated; riddled with; accumulated
累积	lěi jī	to accumulate
连累	lián lěi	to involve; to implicate sb; to spread to others (harm, trouble, damage etc)

1		zuò huǒ chē 坐火车 hěn lèi 很累。 Traveling by train is tiring.
2		tā 他 gǎn dào 感到 hěn lèi 很累。 He feels very tired.
3		wǒ 我 jīn tiān 今天 hěn lèi 很累。 I am very tired today.
4		tā 他 jué de 觉得 gōng zuò 工作 hěn lèi 很累。 He feels tired from work.
5		wǒ 我 lèi dé 累得 xiǎng 想 shuì jiào 睡觉 le 了。 I am so tired that I want to go to sleep.

1		zuò huǒ chē 坐火车 hěn lèi 很累。 Traveling by train is tiring.
2		tā 他 gǎn dào 感到 hěn lèi 很累。 He feels very tired.
3		wǒ 我 jīn tiān 今天 hěn lèi 很累。 I am very tired today.
4		tā 他 jué de 觉得 gōng zuò 工作 hěn lèi 很累。 He feels tired from work.
5		wǒ 我 lèi dé 累得 xiǎng 想 shuì jiào 睡觉 le 了。 I am so tired that I want to go to sleep.