Meanings
- accumulate
- involvement
- trouble
- tie up
- continually
Strokes11
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1662 of 2,500
Kanji N1
累: accumulate, involvement, trouble
累 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning accumulate, involvement, trouble, written with 11 strokes. It is read ルイ (on), and has no common kun reading. It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 累積 (るいせき, accumulation) and 累計 (るいけい, cumulative total).
累
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- ルイ
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- None in common use
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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