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lèi

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lèi Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lèi | lei4
English translation
category, class, group, kind; similar to; to resemble

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About lèi

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Number of strokes

19

Traditional form

lèi

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Etymology of lèi

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Positional decomposition

⿰⿱米犬頁

Explanation

Simplified form of lèi . Depicts three different types of things that have different types, i.e. different types of rice (), leaves (), and dogs ( quǎn ). The traditional component was removed for simplification.

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Words with lèi

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
人类 rénlèi humanity人類
lèi kind lèi
类似 lèisì similar類似
之类 zhī lèi and so on之類
类型 lèixíng type類型
各类 gè lèi all categories各類
分类 fēn lèi classification分類
种类 zhǒnglèi kind種類
同类 tóng lèi similar同類
诸如此类 zhū rú cǐ lèi etc諸如此類
类固醇 lèi gù chún steroid類固醇
类别 lèi bié category類別
鸟类 niǎo lèi birds鳥類
肉类 ròu lèi meat肉類
鱼类 yú lèi fishes魚類
另类 lìng lèi offbeat另類
败类 bài lèi degenerate敗類
人类学 rén lèi xué anthropology人類學
出类拔萃 chū lèi bá cuì preeminent出類拔萃
门类 mén lèi category門類
归类 guī lèi to classify歸類
豆类 dòu lèi bean豆類
禽类 qín lèi birds禽類
类比 lèi bǐ analogy類比
贝类 bèi lèi shellfish貝類

lèi Decomposition & Compounds

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