擂 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

léi, lèi

rub

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 雷 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

雷 Sound component

léi

thunder

Definitions

léi

rub, grind; grind with a mortar and pestle; triturate; beat; to grind

lèi

to beat (a drum)

Most common words with 擂

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	擂台	arena
	擂	beat
	自吹自擂	to blow one's own trumpet (idiom)
	擂台赛	single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated)
	打擂台	(old) to fight on the leitai

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3685th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	16
Unicode	U+64C2

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