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累 — tired; weary; to strain

tired; weary; to strain; to wear out; to work hard

Pinyin
lèi · lěi · léi
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — lèi, lěi, léi — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 累: 11 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

累 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 累 in the HSK syllabus: 7

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 累lèitired; weary; to strain; to wear out; to work hardHSK 2
  2. 积累jīlěito accumulate; accumulation; cumulativeHSK 4
  3. 劳累láolèitired; exhausted; worn out; to toilHSK 7–9
  4. 累赘léizhuisuperfluous; cumbersome; a burden on sbHSK 7–9
  5. 累计lěijìto calculate the running total; cumulativeHSK 7–9
  6. 累积lěijīto accumulateHSK 7–9
  7. 拖累tuōlěito encumber; to be a burden on; to implicateHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.