磊磊

Chinese

		lumpy; rock pile; uneven	lumpy; rock pile; uneven
simp. and trad. (磊磊)		磊	磊

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lěilěi

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˇ ㄌㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁵ leoi⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lěilěi [Phonetic: léilěi]
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˇ ㄌㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lěilěi
    • Wade–Giles: lei³-lei³
    • Yale: lěi-lěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leeileei
    • Palladius: лэйлэй (lɛjlɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ leɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: leoi⁵ leoi⁵
    • Yale: léuih léuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁵ loey⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁵ lêu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯¹³ lɵy̯¹³/

Adjective

磊磊

1. (ideophonic, literary, of rocks) heaped

   • 采三秀兮於山間，石磊磊兮葛蔓蔓。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     采三秀兮于山间，石磊磊兮葛蔓蔓。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 4th century BCE, Qu Yuan (屈原), 《九歌·山鬼》, based on the translation by Herbert Allen Giles, 1922.

     Cǎi sānxiù xī yú shān jiān, shí lěilěi xī gě mànmàn. [Pinyin]

     I pluck the larkspur on the hillside, amid the chaos of rock and tangled vine.