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Kotomora

累

accumulate, involvement, trouble, tie up, continually

JLPTN1StatusJōyō · secondary schoolFrequencyTop 2,000Strokes11

Readings

On'yomi

  • ルイ

Kun'yomi

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Meaning

累 centers on things piling up or becoming entangled: accumulating over time, getting tied up in involvement, or facing trouble that builds from repeated small issues.

Most common words using 累

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  • 累計るいけい

    cumulative total; accumulated total; total up to now

  • 累積るいせき

    accumulation

  • 累るい

    trouble; harmful effect; evil influence; implication; involvement

  • 累進るいしん

    successive promotion; gradual progression; rising step by step

  • 累々るいるい

    in heaps

  • 累増るいぞう

    successive or progressive increases; cumulative increase

  • 九層の台は累土より起こるきゅうそうのうてなはるいどよりおこる

    many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; the tower of nine storeys (stories) rose from a small heap of earth

  • 係累けいるい

    dependents; family members that one has to support

  • 俗累ぞくるい

    worldly troubles; worldliness

  • 地層累重の法則ちそうるいじゅうのほうそく

    law of superposition; principle of superposition

  • 株式累積投資制度かぶしきるいせきとうしせいど

    accumulated stock investment plan

  • 死屍累々ししるいるい

    heaps of corpses all around

  • 煩累はんるい

    troubles; annoyances

  • 累が及ぶるいがおよぶ

    to be affected by another's misfortune; to get caught up in trouble not of one's own making

  • 累を及ぼするいをおよぼす

    to cause trouble (for); to have a harmful effect (on); to involve (someone) in trouble

  • 累世るいせい

    successive generations

  • 累乗るいじょう

    exponentiation

  • 累乗根るいじょうこん

    nth root

  • 累代るいだい

    successive generations

  • 累加るいか

    acceleration; progressive increase

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Etymology

累 combines 田 (field) and 糸 (thread), originally depicting threads piled up or entangled in a field, conveying accumulation and involvement.

Meaning mnemonic

Picture threads 糸 piling up in a field 田, getting tangled and accumulating until they become a troublesome knot.

Reading mnemonic

For ルイ, imagine a ruined field where threads have accumulated into a huge tangled mess: ruined -> ルイ.