Chinese Character Wiki

壘

lěi

rampart

Components
畾 sound component

畾  Sound component

léi

  

fields divided by dikes

土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

earth

Evolution

壘 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
壘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
壘 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
壘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

垒 (壘) 

lěi

rampart, military wall; rampart; base (in baseball); to build with stones, bricks etc

Most common words with 壘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

垒

rampart

堡垒

fort

壁垒

rampart

垒球

softball

对垒

to face off against one's adversary (military, sports etc)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ujʔ

lwijX

lěi

entrenchments


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.2470% of movies

1879th most common character in movies

2417th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

垒

Unicode

U+58D8

Shuowen

“壘，軍壁也。从土，畾聲。”


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