累 · lèi
tired; implicate, involve; bother
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
tired; implicate, involve; bother
- Mandarin
- lèi
- Cantonese
- leoi6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 累 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ルイ ラ リョウ ライ ル かさねる しきりに しばるKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 누
- KS X 1001 (0)
- 루
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7D2F
- Radical
- 糸 · 120
- Strokes
- 11 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
11 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 累
Character connections
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Reverse links to attributed component analyses. Open each character for its role, source and words. Shared components do not establish word ancestry.
History & distinctions
Related forms
纍
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- ljweX · 力委 反切 · #1210
- Middle Chinese
- ljweH · 良僞 反切 · #2162
- Middle Chinese
- lwojH · 盧對 反切 · #2522
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 9089 · ljweX = 止合三上支來 · ljweH = 止合三去支來 · lwojH = 蟹合一去灰來
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- lèi
- kCantonese
- leoi6
- kDefinition
- tired; implicate, involve; bother
- kTotalStrokes
- 11
- kRSUnicode
- 120.5
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+7D2F U+7E8D
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+7D2F
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:2282
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- lěi,léi,lèi,lǜ,liè 53381.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- léi 0685.090 · lěi 0686.050 · lèi 0687.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- léi 212.110 · lěi 213.060,213.070 · lèi 213.160
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- lèi(111) lěi(54)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- lěi粵leoi5 lèi粵leoi6 léi粵leoi6 léi粵leoi4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 力委 良僞 盧對
- Kangxi positions
- 0919.350
- Guangyun positions
- 242.32 347.13
- GSR references
- 0577r
- Cangjie
- WVIF
- Four-corner
- 6090.3