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Mandarin · pinyin léi léi#

(literary) (of fruit, achievements etc) clusters of; piles of; heaps of
(literary) gaunt; haggard; wretched
Taiwan pr. lěi lěi

Mandarin · pinyin lěi lěi#

again and again
innumerable
repeated
riddled with
accumulated

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累: lèi · tired; implicate, involve; bother

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2–2 · lei2 lei2

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adj · Etymology 1

very many; countless; innumerable

adv · Etymology 1

again and again; repeatedly

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