JLPT N1 · 11 strokes
Kanji 累: "accumulate, involvement, trouble"
The kanji 累 means "accumulate, involvement, trouble, tie up, continually". It is written with 11 strokes and belongs to JLPT level N1, read ルイ in on'yomi.
Stroke order
Strokes are written in the order of the numbers. The order is not decorative: it is what gives the character its balance, and it is also how handwriting search works in Japanese dictionaries.
Readings
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ルイ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
no recorded reading
In a kun'yomi reading, the dot separates the kanji from its okurigana: かた.る is read かたる and written 語る. A hyphen marks a bound position, like -び in 日.
At a glance
| Meaning | accumulate, involvement, trouble, tie up, continually |
|---|---|
| Strokes | 11 |
| JLPT level | N1 |
| Taught in Japan | secondary school |
| Frequency rank | 1662 of 2,501 |
Common words with 累
The most frequent words using this kanji, most common first, with furigana readings. Click one to open it in the reader.
- 累計cumulative total; accumulated total; total up to now
- 死屍累々heaps of corpses all around
- 累trouble; harmful effect; evil influence; implication
- 累々in heaps
- 累積accumulation · cumulative; accumulated
- 累が及ぶto be affected by another's misfortune; to get caught up in trouble not of one's own making
- 係累dependents; family members that one has to support · encumbrances; things that tie one down
- 累代successive generations
- 累を及ぼすto cause trouble (for); to have a harmful effect (on); to involve (someone) in trouble
- 累進successive promotion; gradual progression; rising step by step · increasing progressively (of income tax, etc.)
- 累算total
- 累乗exponentiation
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