雷
léi
HSK level: HSK 6
Meaning
thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
Other reading: Léi
surname Lei
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Examples
我被雷劈了。
wǒ bèi léi pī le。
I was struck by lightning.
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。
dāng Tāng mǔ kāi zhe tā pò jiù de léi zé chē lái jiē nǚ ér fàng xué shí， tā de nǚ ér jiǎ zhuāng bù rèn shi tā。
Tom's daughter pretended not to know him when he came to pick her up from school in his battered old car.
Words with this character
雷达 léi dá radar雷同 léi tóng mirroring others打雷 dǎ léi to rumble with thunder哈姆雷特 Hā mǔ léi tè Hamlet雷击 léi jī lightning strike弗雷 Fú léi Freyr格雷 Gé léi Grey雷锋 Léi Fēng Lei Feng, a soldier celebrated by the Chinese government from 1963 onward as a model of selflessness and devotion to the Communist Party雷波 Léi bō see 雷波縣|雷波县[Lei2 bo1 Xian4]雷德 Léi dé Clark T. Randt Jr., US ambassador to Beijing 2001-2009雷恩 Léi ēn Rennes雷根 Léi gēn Taiwan equivalent of 里根[Li3 gen1]雷公 Léi gōng Lei Gong or Duke of Thunder, the God of Thunder in Chinese mythology雷朗 Léi lǎng Luilang, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan雷曼 Léi màn Lehman or Leymann雷诺 Léi nuò Reynolds雷山 Léi shān see 雷山縣|雷山县[Lei2 shan1 Xian4]雷州 Léi zhōu see 雷州市[Lei2 zhou1 Shi4]拖雷 Tuō léi Tolui, fourth son of Genghis Khan暴雷 bào léi thunderclap爆雷 bào léi to collapse避雷 bì léi to avoid being struck by lightning布雷 bù léi to lay mines