lèi, léi
to wind around, bind
Phonosemantic compound. 畾 represents the sound and 糸 represents the meaning.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 纍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
tired | ||
to accumulate | ||
to accumulate | ||
to accumulate | ||
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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