IDENTITY
累lèitired; to tire
HSK 1Top 700
CORE MEANING
tired; to tire
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.tiredHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 糸silk radical (mì)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱田糸
- the load
- knotted threads; strain
USAGE
Common words
累了lèi leto be tired
劳累láolèitired from work
Graded examples
工作了一天，我很累。Gōngzuò le yì tiān, wǒ hěn lèi.HSK2
After a day of work, I am tired.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 紫
LEARNING
Memory aid
Threads (糸) knotted over the fields (田) — tangled, exhausted. (From 纍, piled-up burdens.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #700
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
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