累

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

11 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,104 U+7D2F

Ideographic compound (会意字)

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

components: 田糸

tired · Heisig RSH #2418

田 rice field + floss

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 累 as their sound component

These characters all use 累 (lèi) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
累 sound component	lèi	tired; to accumulate; to involve; bother, nuisance
螺	luó	spiral shell, conch; spiral
骡	luó	mule
漯	tà	a river in northern Shandong
瘰	luǒ	scrofula, swellings
嫘	léi	surname
缧	léi	chains, bonds

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
长年累月	cháng nián lěi yuè	year in, year out (idiom); (over) many years
成年累月	chéng nián lěi yuè	year in, year out (idiom)
经年累月	jīng nián lěi yuè	for years; over the years
累加总数	lěi jiā zǒng shù	cumulative total
累加器	lěi jiā qì	accumulator (computing)
达累斯萨拉姆	Dá lèi sī Sà lā mǔ	Dar es Salaam (former capital of Tanzania)
家累千金，坐不垂堂	jiā lěi qiān jīn , zuò bù chuí táng	lit. a wealthy person does not sit under the eaves (idiom); fig. a rich man does not expos…
成千累万	chéng qiān lěi wàn	lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousand…
常年累月	cháng nián lěi yuè	variant of 長年累月\|长年累月[chang2 nian2 lei3 yue4]
德累斯顿	Dé léi sī dùn	Dresden, capital of Saxony 薩克森州\|萨克森州[Sa4 ke4 sen1 Zhou1], Germany
日积月累	rì jī yuè lěi	to accumulate over a long period of time
积累毒性	jī lěi dú xìng	cumulative poison
积年累月	jī nián lěi yuè	year in, year out (idiom); (over) many years
积金累玉	jī jīn lěi yù	to accumulate gold and jewels (idiom); prosperous
心累	xīn lèi	emotionally exhausted; drained
累心	lèi xīn	taxing (mentally or emotionally)
马累	Mǎ lèi	Malé, capital of Maldives
积累性	jī lěi xìng	cumulative
累积剂量	lěi jī jì liàng	cumulative dose
积德累功	jī dé lěi gōng	to accumulate merit and virtue