泪 (淚) lèi
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lèi
noun
tears
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '淚'; Guoyu '淚' n; Unihan '淚') -
lèi
verb
to weep; to cry
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '淚')
Contained in
- 热泪盈眶(熱淚盈眶) eyes brimming with tears of excitement
- 泪奔(淚奔) to get emotional
- 气泪(氣淚) prone to crying
- 男儿有泪不轻弹(男兒有淚不輕彈) real men do not easily cry
- 血泪(血淚) tears of blood (symbol of extreme suffering); blood and tears
- 不见棺材不落泪(不見棺材不落淚) not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin; refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality
- 含泪(含淚) tearful; tearfully
- 眼泪横流(眼淚橫流) to be overflowing with tears
- 挥泪(揮淚) to shed tears; to be all in tears
- 下泪(下淚) tears that he cried
- 热泪(熱淚) hot tears
- 泪交颐(淚交頤) tears run down their cheeks
- 烛泪(燭淚) drop of melted wax that runs down the side of a candle
- 催泪瓦斯(催淚瓦斯) tear gas
- 涔涔泪下(涔涔淚下) a flood of tears
- 泪腺(淚腺) Lacrimal gland
- 哭天抹泪(哭天抹淚) to wail and whine; piteous weeping
- 落泪(落淚) to shed tears; to weep
- 催泪弹(催淚彈) tear bomb; tear-gas grenade
- 泪汪汪(淚汪汪) tearful; brimming with tears
- 泪流满面(淚流滿面) cheeks streaming with tears
- 淌眼泪(淌眼淚) to shed tears
- 泪眼(淚眼) tearful eyes
- 泪液(淚液) tears; teardrops
- 一字一泪(一字一淚) each word is a teardrop
- 泪珠(淚珠) a teardrop
- 催泪(催淚) to move to tears (of a story); tear-provoking (gas); lacrimogen
- 泪如雨下(淚如雨下) tears falling like rain
- 一把眼泪一把鼻涕(一把眼淚一把鼻涕) with one's face covered in tears
- 眼泪(眼淚) tears
- 淌泪(淌淚) to shed a tear
- 泪水涟涟(淚水漣漣) in floods of tears
- 垂泪(垂淚) to shed tears
- 掉泪(掉淚) to shed tears
- 催泪大片(催淚大片) tear-jerker (movie)
- 流泪(流淚) to shed tears
- 泪水(淚水) teardrop; tears
- 以泪洗面(以淚洗面) to bathe one's face in tears
- 泪痕(淚痕) tear stains
- 泪眼婆娑(淚眼婆娑) tearful
- 潸然泪下(潸然淚下) to shed silent tears
- 声泪俱下(聲淚俱下) to shed tears while recounting something; speaking in a tearful voice
- 一掬同情之泪(一掬同情之淚) to shed tears of sympathy
- 涕泪交流(涕淚交流) tears and mucus flowing profusely; weeping tragically
- 泪花(淚花) tears in the eyes
- 鳄鱼眼泪(鱷魚眼淚) crocodile tears; hypocritical words of sympathy
- 催泪剂(催淚劑) lachrymator
- 泪光(淚光) glistening teardrops
- 泪涔涔(淚涔涔) a flood of tears
- 雨泪(雨淚) weep tears like rain
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二十七 Scroll 27 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10
- 卷三十一 Scroll 31 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 9
- 第二回 Chapter 70 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 7
- 第七十七回 Chapter 77 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
- 第二回 Chapter 32 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 6
- 卷六十 Scroll 60 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷95 匈奴劉聰 羯胡石勒 鐵弗劉虎 徒何慕容廆 臨渭氐苻健 羌姚萇 略陽氐吕光 Volume 95: Liu Cong of the Xiongnu, Shi Le of the Jie People, Liu Hu of the Tiefu, Murong Hui of the Tuhe, Fu Jian of the Linwei Di, Yao Chong of the Qiang, Lu Guang of the Lüeyang Di Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 5
- 第二回 Chapter 44 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 5
- 第一百二十回 Chapter 120 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 5
Collocations
- 收泪 (收淚) 延收淚強起 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十五 李王鄧來列傳 Volume 15: Biographies of Li, Wang, Deng, Lai — count: 18
- 堕泪 (墮淚) 杜預因名為墮淚碑 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷三十四 列傳第四 羊祜 杜預 Volume 34 Biographies 4: Yang Hu; Du Yu — count: 8
- 泣泪 (泣淚) 饮泣泪 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十九 南匈奴列傳 Volume 89: Treatise on the Southern Xiongnu — count: 8
- 声泪 (聲淚) 懷聲淚俱止 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷67 崔光 Volume 67: Cui Guang — count: 8
- 泪尽 (淚儘) 淚盡而繼之以血 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 和氏第十三 Chapter 13: Mr. He — count: 7
- 抆泪 (抆淚) 慨然抆泪曰 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十七 酷吏列傳 Volume 77: Biographies of Cruel Officials — count: 7
- 辞泪 (辭淚) 辭淚哀切 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷五十五 列傳第三十六 孝義 Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety — count: 7
- 洒泪 (灑淚) 行人灑淚 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百〇三 載記第三 劉曜 Volume 103 Records 3: Liu Yao — count: 6
- 泪曰 (淚曰) 慨然抆泪曰 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十七 酷吏列傳 Volume 77: Biographies of Cruel Officials — count: 5
- 泪满 (淚滿) 灑淚滿褘抱 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷二十二 志第十二 樂四 Volume 22 Treatises 12: Music 4 — count: 5