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磊

lěi
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 a heap of stones
  2. 2 open and honest; upright (of character)

Examples

HSK 7-9
他为人光明磊落，大家都信任他。
Tā wéirén guāngmíng-lěiluò, dàjiā dōu xìnrèn tā.
He is an honest and upright man whom everyone trusts.
HSK 7-9
山脚下磊着一堆巨石。
Shānjiǎo xià lěi zhe yì duī jùshí.
Boulders are piled up at the foot of the mountain.
HSK 7-9
做事磊落就不怕闲话。
Zuòshì lěiluò jiù bú pà xiánhuà.
Doing things in an upright way fears no gossip.

Tips

memory
Three 石 ('stone') stacked into a pile: a heap of solid rocks. From 'rocks plainly stacked in the open' came the figurative 光明磊落 ('frank and upright, nothing hidden').

Components

radical
石 shí
stone; rock
The single 石 on top is the indexing radical and the first rock of the pile; tripling it expresses 'many stones heaped up'.
semantic
石 shí
stone; rock
The bottom-left 石 repeats the stone, contributing to the sense of an accumulated mound rather than a single rock.
semantic
石 shí
stone; rock
The bottom-right 石 completes the triple stack; three of the same component is a common way to write 'a great many', here a pile of stones.

Stroke Order

磊 lěi