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羸

léi

Character

What 羸 means

1. entangled
2. lean

Words starting with 羸

• 羸弱léi ruòfrail; weak

Characters built on 月

These share the phonetic component 月 (yuè), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 背bèithe back of a body or object; to turn one's back; to hide something from
• 肥féifat; fertile; loose-fitting or large
• 肺fèilung
• 胃wèistomach
• 腓féicalf of leg; decay; protect
• 肋lèi(bound form) rib; Taiwan pr. lè
• 胚pēiembryo
• 脢méimeat on the back of an animal

Sounds the same

Read léi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 雷thunder; (bound form; military) mine, as in 地雷; (colloquial) to shock; to stun; to astound
• 擂to pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum)…
• 累rope; to bind together; to twist around
• 镭radium (chemistry)
• 罍large earthenware wine jar
• 缧(literary) thick rope used to restrain a prisoner
• 攂to beat (old variant of 擂
• 樏(archaic) simple sedan chair for traveling in the mountains…
• 檑logs rolled down in defense of city
• 欙sedan
• 畾fields divided by dikes
• 礌used in 礌石; Taiwan pr. lèi