累 lèi / léi / lěi in a sentence
Tired (fatigued - weary); Cumbersome; Accumulate
累 (lèi / léi / lěi) means Tired (fatigued - weary), Cumbersome, Accumulate. Below are 24 of the 25 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
今天工作很多，我很 累 。
Jīntiān gōngzuò hěn duō, wǒ hěn lèi.
There was a lot of work today, I'm tired.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 累
他今天显得有点 累 。
Tā jīntiān xiǎnde yǒudiǎn lèi.
He seems a little tired today.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 显得
走 累 了就歇一会儿。
Zǒu lèi le jiù xiē yíhuìr.
Rest a while if you are tired from walking.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 歇
看书的时候眼睛会 累 。
Kàn shū de shíhou yǎnjing huì lèi.
Your eyes get tired when you read.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 眼睛
我感觉今天有点儿 累 。
Wǒ gǎnjué jīntiān yǒudiǎnr lèi.
I feel a bit tired today.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 感觉
威望是靠多年积 累 的。
Wēiwàng shì kào duō nián jīlěi de.
Prestige is built up over many years.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 威望
今天很忙，所以我很 累 。
Jīntiān hěn máng, suǒyǐ wǒ hěn lèi.
Today was busy, so I'm tired.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 所以
学汉语要慢慢积 累 词语。
Xué Hànyǔ yào mànmàn jīlěi cíyǔ.
Learning Chinese means building up vocabulary slowly.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 积累
他积 累 了很多工作经验。
Tā jīlěi le hěn duō gōngzuò jīngyàn.
He has accumulated a lot of work experience.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 积累
尽管很 累 ，他还在工作。
Jǐnguǎn hěn lèi, tā hái zài gōngzuò.
Although he is tired, he is still working.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 尽管
虽然很 累 ，但是我很高兴。
Suīrán hěn lèi, dànshì wǒ hěn gāoxìng.
Although I'm tired, I'm very happy.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 虽然
跑完五公里，他 累 得直喘气。
Pǎo wán wǔ gōnglǐ, tā lèi de zhí chuǎnqì.
After running five kilometres he was panting with exhaustion.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 喘气
他自己惹的麻烦，活该受 累 。
Tā zìjǐ rě de máfan, huógāi shòulèi.
He brought the trouble on himself and deserves the bother.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 活该
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From the graded readers
它在四楼，每天上楼有点儿 累 。
tā zài sì lóu, měitiān shàng lóu yǒudiǎn ér lèi / léi / lěi.
It's on the fourth floor, so going up is a bit tiring.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room
刚开始的时候，我觉得有点儿 累 。
gāng kāishǐ de / dì shíhou, wǒ juéde yǒudiǎn ér lèi / léi / lěi.
At first I found that a bit tiring.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
那时候我一百八十斤，走两层楼都 累 。
nàshí hòu wǒ yībǎi bāshí jīn, zǒu liǎng céng lóu dōu lèi / léi / lěi.
At the time I weighed ninety kilos and two flights of stairs tired me out.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
上山的路很长，我们走了三个小时，非常 累 。
shàngshān de / dì lù hěn cháng / zhǎng, wǒmen zǒule sān gè xiǎoshí, fēicháng lèi / léi / lěi.
The path up was long; we walked three hours and were exhausted.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Trip With Friends
有一次，我已经很 累 了，同事又让我帮他做一份报告。
yǒu yīcì, wǒ yǐjīng hěn lèi / léi / lěi le / liǎo / liào, tóngshì yòu ràng wǒ bāng tā zuò yī fèn bàogào.
Once, when I was already exhausted, a colleague asked me to do a report for him.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
她在信里问我：吃得好不好？睡得好不好？工作 累 不 累 ？
tā zài xìn lǐ wèn wǒ: chī dé / děi / de hǎo / hào bùhǎo? shuì dé / děi / de hǎo / hào bùhǎo? gōngzuò lèi / léi / lěi bù lèi / léi / lěi?
She asked in it: was I eating well, sleeping well, was work tiring?
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
From the grammar library
累 appears in 25 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 累
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Questions about 累
How is 累 used in a sentence?
This page shows 25 sentences using 累 (lèi / léi / lěi, "Tired (fatigued - weary), Cumbersome, Accumulate"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 累 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 累 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 累 an HSK word?
Yes — 累 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 累?
The dictionary page for 累 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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