adverb HSK 7-9 #23,517

Meanings

  1. 1 repeatedly
  2. 2 time and again

Examples

Tā lǚzhànlǚbài.
He was defeated time and again.
Zhèzhǒng shìqing lǚjiànbùxiān.
This kind of thing is nothing new.

Tips

usage
is literary/formal. In everyday speech, use 多次 or 屡次. Common set phrases: 屡次 (repeatedly), 屡见不鲜 (nothing new), 屡战屡败 (repeatedly defeated).

Components

radical
shī
body; corpse; wrapped figure (radical)
Top-left corpse radical — originally a person seated with knees bent, used as the indexing radical for many overhang/dwelling characters ( house, dwell, floor). In it provides the upper wrap, semantically faded; the meaning lives entirely in below. Conventional indexing only.
phonetic
lóu
to drag; hollow (here phonetic)
Inner supplies the sound — lóu shifting to lǚ. Originally pictured grain stacked on a frame, giving a 'piled up, repeated' nuance that pairs neatly with the modern meaning 'repeatedly, time after time' (屡次 repeatedly, 屡见不鲜 seen so often it's no surprise). Same phonetic feeds (storied building), (number, repeated counting).

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