累

累 (radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田女戈火 (WVIF), four-corner 6090₃, composition ⿱田糸)

• KangXi: page 919, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27343
• Dae Jaweon: page 1351, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3381, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7D2F

Simplified from 纍 (畾 → 田).

Folk etymology considers this character as an ideographic compound representing the tiredness after work. In ancient China, men were working in the field (田) while women sewed (糸).

Various semantic fields can be distinguished:

“to add; to accumulate”

Related to 壘 (OC *rulʔ, “rampart; to build by piling rocks”), 厽 (OC *rolʔ), 絫 (OC *rolʔ) (Wang, 1982).

“to damage; exhausted; tired”

Related to 儽 (OC *ruːls, *rul, “tired”), 儡 (OC *ruːl, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls, “to injure”) (Schuessler, 2007). It can be compared with Khmer រួយ (ruəy, “tired; exhausted”), Mizo rawih (“weak; worn out; broken down”), Tibetan རུལ (rul, “to decay; to rot”), འབྲུལ ('brul, “to fall; to come out”), ཧྲུལ་པོ (hrul po, “torn; ragged”), སྲུལ (srul, “(archaic) to rot; to decompose”) (ibid.).

“to bind; to wind around”

See 纍 (OC *rul, *ruls).

累

1. ^† to pile up; to heap up; to mount up; to accumulate
   • 積累 / 积累  ―  jīlěi  ―  to accumulate
   • 累計 / 累计  ―  lěijì  ―  to accumulate
2. ^† repeated; numerous; unremitting; continuous; persistent
3. ^† to repeat; to replicate; to overlap
4. ^† to add (to); to increase; to grow
5. ^† to amount (to); to sum up (to)
6. ^† Alternative form of 絫 (“ancient weight unit”).
7. A surname​.

累

1. ^† to involve; to implicate; to embroil; to entangle; to hinder
2. ^† burden; tribulation; affliction; problem
3. ^† to damage; to hurt; to do harm to; to stain; to sully
4. ^† to entrust; to delegate; to devolve
5. to cause trouble to; to trouble (someone)

   • 真係唔好意思，累你白行一趟。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     真系唔好意思，累你白行一趟。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     Zan¹ hai⁶ m⁴ hou² ji³ si¹, leoi⁶ nei⁵ baak⁶ haang⁴ jat¹ tong³. [Jyutping]

     I'm really sorry for making you come here for nothing.

6. ^† suffering; misery; harm; disaster
7. ^† fault; crime; slip; defect
8. to strain; to wear out; to overwork; to overtax

   • 他會累得精疲力竭的。 [MSC, trad.]
     他会累得精疲力竭的。 [MSC, simp.]

     Tā huì lèi dé jīngpílìjié de. [Pinyin]

     He'll wear himself out.

9. tired; weary; fatigued; exhausted
   • 我很累。  ―  Wǒ hěn lèi.  ―  I'm tired.
10. (of work) hard; tiring; hardworking
    • 你別工作得太累。 / 你别工作得太累。  ―  Nǐ bié gōngzuò dé tài lèi.  ―  Don't work too hard.
11. ^† verbose; long-winded; unnecessary; superfluous
12. ^† wife and children; one's family

累

1. Only used in 謼遫累.

累

1. Only used in 肥累.

累

1. ^† Synonym of 裸 (luǒ, “bare; naked”).

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 纍)

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• Go-on: るい (rui, Jōyō)^{←るゐ (ruwi, historical)}
• Kan-on: るい (rui, Jōyō)^{←るゐ (ruwi, historical)}
• Kun: かさね (kasane, 累); かさねる (kasaneru, 累ねる); しばる (shibaru, 累る); わずらわせ (wazurawase, 累わせ)^{←わづらはせ (wadurafase, historical)}

累 • (ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누, revised ru>nu, McCune–Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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累 (luỵ, lủi, luỹ, mệt, luy)

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