lèiléi

to wind around, bind

Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components
畾 sound component

  Sound component

léi

  

fields divided by dikes

糸 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

Evolution

纍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
纍 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
纍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

léi

bind, wind about; link, join; rope; to bind together; to twist around

() 

Léi

surname Lei

Most common words with 纍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

tired

累计

to accumulate

积累

to accumulate

累积

to accumulate

拖累

to encumber

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]uj

lwij

léi

to wind around, bind


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 30.6744% of movies

1226th most common character in movies

1323rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+7E8D

Shuowen

“纍,綴得理也。一曰大索也。从糸,畾聲。”


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