累 lèi tired
exhausted; tired; tiring; to accumulate
怎么记住“累”: 田 field + 糸 silk = tired. After the football match on the muddy field, the coach collapses onto his silk pillow at home, utterly tired.
部件结构
累 = 田 field + 糸 silk
- 田 field
- 糸 silk
After the football match on the muddy field, the coach collapses onto his silk pillow at home, utterly tired.
How it came to be
A field over silk. The full form stacks three fields, one plot roped to the next and the next, piling up. Carrying that pile is where the tiredness comes from.
用法
- Read lèi = "tired": 我很累 (wǒ hěn lèi) I'm tired, 累死了 (lèi sǐ le) exhausted. Can also mean "tiring": 这个工作很累 (this job is tiring).
- Read lěi it means to accumulate: 积累 (jīlěi) accumulate, 累积 (lěijī) build up. Same character, very different everyday meaning; let context set the tone.
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含“累”的词语
例句
- 她觉得很累。 Tā juéde hěn lèi.She feels very tired.
- 虽然跑得很累，但是很多人都没有放弃。 Suīrán pǎo de hěn lèi, dànshì hěn duō rén dōu méiyǒu fàngqì.Though exhausted from running, many refused to give up.
- 知识要靠阅读来积累。 Zhīshi yào kào yuèdú lái jīlěi.Knowledge is accumulated by reading.