累人 (lèi rén) — (stative verb) tiring, demanding, exhausting; (verb-object) to wear someone out; to be a burden

Definition

Means 'tiring / wearing someone out' — a colloquial stative verb used after 很 or 太, or reduplicated as 累人地 + verb. Note the tone: lèi (fourth tone), not léi.

(stative verb) tiringdemandingexhausting(verb-object) to wear someone outto be a burden
Easily confused

Examples

  • 累人。
    Zhè fèn gōng zuò hěn lèi rén.
    This job is very tiring.
  • 。
    Zhè huó r zhēn lèi sǐ rén.
    This work really wears people out.
  • 累人。
    Zhè zhǒng gōng zuò tài lèi rén rén le.
    This kind of work really tires people out.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

累lèitire
人rénperson

累 means to tire and 人 is the person affected, making something that wears people out.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 人 shows a side view of a standing person, with an arm and a leg.

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