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累赘

léi zhuì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 累贅

累赘 (léi zhuì) means "superfluous; cumbersome; a burden on sb". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 累赘 means

1. superfluous
2. cumbersome
3. a burden on sb
4. a nuisance to sb
5. to inconvenience
6. to tie sb down
7. long-winded (of writing)
8. also pr. léi zhui

The characters in 累赘

• 累lèitired; weary; to strain
• 赘zhuì(bound form) superfluous; (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's…

Example sentences

• 我知道自己是个累赘，你没必要反复提。
  Wǒ zhīdào zìjǐ shì ge léizhuì, nǐ méi bìyào fǎnfù tí.
  I know I'm a burden; you don't have to repeat it.
• 感觉自己对别人而言就是个累赘，不会有人爱上我的。
  Gǎnjué zìjǐ duì biéren éryán jiùshì gè léizhuì, bù huì yǒurén àishàng wǒ de.
  I feel that I am a burden to everyone, that no one will ever love me.

Sounds the same

Read léi zhuì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 累坠variant of 累赘

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