HSK 2 · Body

累 lèi “tired” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 累 means

  1. tired
  2. weary
  3. to strain
  4. to wear out
  5. to work hard

How to say 累

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale累lèi4th tone, falling

累 in a sentence

  1. 我很累，我想我要去睡觉了。

    Wǒ hěn lèi, wǒ xiǎng wǒ yào qù shuìjiào le.

    I’m tired; I think I’m going to go to bed.

    Sentence #395284 from Tatoeba

  2. 你看上去非常累。

    Nǐ kànshangqu fēicháng lèi.

    You look really tired.

    Sentence #471319 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你累了，最好休息一下。

    Nǐ lèi le, zuìhǎo xiūxi yíxià.

    You’re tired, so you’d better have a rest.

    Sentence #1990255 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 累 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 累 (lèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
累lèitired
  • 田field · tián
  • 糸silk · mì

How to write 累

累 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

累 (lèi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 累 (lèi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 累

Words with 累

积累jīlěi · to accumulate

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FAQs

累 (lèi) means “tired” or “weary”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it lèi: lèi with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 累 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type lei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 累 from the suggestions. Typing lei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
累 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.