Chinese Character Wiki
累

lěi, lèi, léi

tired

Simplified form of 纍. 田 is shorthand for the phonetic component 畾. 糸 represents the meaning "wind around, bind". The meaning later expanded to "tired".

Components
田 simplified component

田  Simplified component

tián

  

field

Shorthand for the phonetic component 畾.

糸 meaning component

糸  Meaning component

mì

  

silk

Evolution

累 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
累 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
累 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
累 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

累  

lěi

to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lèi]); continuous; repeated

累  

lèi

tired; weary; to strain; to wear out; to work hard

累 (纍) 

léi

bind, wind about; link, join; rope; to bind together; to twist around

累 (纍) 

Léi

surname Lei

Most common words with 累
Freq.
Word
Meaning

累

tired

累计

to accumulate

积累

to accumulate

累积

to accumulate

拖累

to encumber

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

摞

Sound component in 9 characters (0 verified)

螺 騾 骡 摞 嫘 漯 缧 瘰 镙

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]oj

ljwe

lěi

rope (to tie s.o. up)

*[r]ojʔ

ljweX

lěi

accumulate


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 30.6744% of movies

1226th most common character in movies

1323rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

纍

Unicode

U+7D2F


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