雷
Meanings
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- 1.surname Lei
- 1.thunder
- 2.(bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[dì léi] land mine
- 3.(coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound
- 4.(Tw) (coll.) spoiler
- 5.(Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
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Wiktionary
- 1.thunder
- 2.lightning
- 3.explosive device; mine
- 4.to astonish; to shock
- 5.astonishment; surprise
- 6.burdensome
- 7.to be burden to others
- 8.boobs
- 9.plot spoiler
- 10.two
- 11.loyalty
- 12.a surname
- 13.to lay off
- 14.Used in transcription.
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Etymology
Ancient simplification of 靁, which was a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ruːl): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 畾 (OC *ruːl). The Northern Min initial s- may be due to the loss of a pre-initial which might have been a velar considering dialect forms in Henan, Hebei and Shanxi, e.g. Taiyuan Jin 忽雷 (hueh4 lui1) (Schuessler, 2007). Perhaps from Sino-Tibetan. Compare Mizo râwl (“voice; cry (of an animal); sound”), Tibetan ཁྲོལ (khrol). * (spoiler): Clipping of 捏他八雷 (niētābāléi), from Japanese ネタバレ (netabare). * (loyalty): by homophony of 二 (ji⁶, “two”) and 義 /义 (ji⁶, “spirit of loyalty”). * (to lay off): from Phono-semantic matching of English lay off.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
準備發射魚雷。
Prepare to launch torpedoes.
雷聲嚇到孩子了。
The thunder scared the children.
他的房子遭到雷擊。
His house was struck by lightning.
這棵大樹遭到雷擊。
The big tree was struck by lightning.
閃電常常伴隨著雷鳴。
Lightning is usually followed by thunder.
当汤姆开着他破旧的雷泽车来接女儿放学时，他的女儿假装不认识他。
Tom's daughter pretended not to know him when he came to pick her up from school in his battered old car.
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