累 - léi - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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11 strokes
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累 (纍)

léi

Definition

rope
to bind together
to twist around

Other pronunciations

累	lèi	tired
累	lěi	to accumulate to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lei4]) continuous repeated

Character Decomposition

Compounds (9)

螺

luó

spiral shell; snail; conch

摞

luò

to pile up; to stack; a pile; a stack

mule

scrofula; tuberculosis of glands

bind; bond

name of a river

a heap of stones; boulders

蔂

léi

basket for carrying earth

樏

lěi

mountain-climbing shoes

Related words (2)

累累

léi léi

clusters of; piles of; heaps of

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]

Idioms (1)

果实累累

guǒ shí léi léi

(lit.) prodigious abundance of fruit (idiom); fruit hangs heavy on the bough; (fig.) countless accomplishments; one great result after another

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