累世

Chinese

		accumulate; implicate; tired accumulate; implicate; tired; cumbersome	life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime
simp. and trad. (累世)		累	世

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lěishì

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˇ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁵ sai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lěishì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˇ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lěishìh
    • Wade–Giles: lei³-shih⁴
    • Yale: lěi-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leeishyh
    • Palladius: лэйши (lɛjši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: leoi⁵ sai³
    • Yale: léuih sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁵ sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁵ sei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯¹³ sɐi̯³³/

Adverb

累世

1. (literary) over the course of several generations; from generation to generation; down through the generations; through successive generations

Synonyms

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• 世 (shì) (literary, or in compounds)
• 世代 (shìdài) (literary)
• 仍世 (réngshì) (literary)
• 代代 (dàidài) (literary)
• 祖代 (zǔdài) (literary)
• 累代 (lěidài) (literary)