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磊

lěi
adjective

Meanings

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

Examples

他为人光明磊落，大家都信任他。
Tā wéirén guāngmínglěiluò, dàjiā dōu xìnrèn tā.
He is an honest and upright man whom everyone trusts.
山脚下磊着一堆巨石。
Shānjiǎoxià lěi zhe yì duī jùshí.
Boulders are piled up at the foot of the mountain.
做事磊落就不怕闲话。
Zuòshì lěiluò jiù búpà 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