垒 (lěi): rampart, base (in baseball), to build with stones, bricks etc
垒 (lěi) is a Chinese character meaning “rampart.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 厽 (phonetic) and 土 (semantic). It ranks #2340 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 垒 earth. Its radical form 土 (earth) appears in many related characters such as 在 (zài, to exist), 地 (dì, earth, ground), 场 (chǎng, field, place).
Definitions
- rampart
- base (in baseball)
- to build with stones, bricks etc
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 堡垒noun | bǎo lěi | fort |
| 垒球noun | lěi qiú | softball |
| 对垒verb | duì lěi | to face off against one's adversary (military, sports etc) |
| 壁垒noun | bì lěi | rampart |
| 营垒noun | yíng lěi | army camp |
| 再见全垒打 | zài jiàn quán lěi dǎ | walk-off home run |
| 本垒打noun | běn lěi dǎ | home run (baseball) |
| 木垒哈萨克自治县 | mù lěi hā sà kè zì zhì xiàn | Mori Kazakh Autonomous County, in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture 昌吉回族自治州, Xinj... |
| 全垒打noun | quán lěi dǎ | home run (baseball) |
| 干打垒 | gān dǎ lěi | rammed earth |
| 壁垒一新 | bì lěi yī xīn | to have one's defenses in good order (idiom) |
| 堆垒数论 | duī lěi shù lùn | additive number theory (math.) |
| 跑垒员 | pǎo lěi yuán | runner (in baseball) |
| 本垒noun | běn lěi | (baseball) home base |
| 关税壁垒 | guān shuì bì lěi | tariff wall |
垒 appears in 30 compound words: 13 as the first character, 50 as the last, and 37 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 垒 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
这座古垒已经有两千多年的历史了。
zhè zuò gǔ lěi yǐ jīng yǒu liǎng qiān duō nián de lì shǐ le .
This ancient fortress has a history of over two thousand years.
李灏宇WBC定位二垒 练打击中计分板状态佳
lǐ 灏 yǔ W B C dìng wèi èr lěi liàn dǎ jī zhōng jì fēn bǎn zhuàng tài jiā
Li Haoyu is positioned at second base in WBC and is in good shape on the scoreboard during practice hitting
经典赛/龙恩退赛后谁守中华队一垒?大联盟记者点名张育成
jīng diǎn sài lóng ēn tuì sài hòu shéi shǒu zhōng huá duì yī lěi ? dà lián méng jì zhě diǎn míng zhāng yù chéng
Who guards the first base of the Chinese team after the classic/Long En retires? Major League Baseball reporters named Zhang Yucheng
龙仔大联盟机会浮现?小熊一垒手动刀、主帅点龙恩是替补人选之一
lóng zǐ dà lián méng jī huì fú xiàn ? xiǎo xióng yī lěi shǒu dòng dāo , zhǔ shuài diǎn lóng ēn shì tì bǔ rén xuǎn zhī yī
Dragon Boy Major League Opportunities Emerge? Cubs first baseman knife and manager Dian Longen is one of the substitutes
中华队全垒打、全场啤酒免费加满 金色三麦全台21家...
zhōng huá duì quán lěi dǎ , quán chǎng pí jiǔ miǎn fèi jiā mǎn jīn sè sān mài quán tái 2 1 jiā . . .
The Chinese team hit a home run, and the beer was refilled for free, and there were 21 golden three wheat stores in Taiwan...
...宗哲春训首安、首打点出炉! 大展选球眼上垒率破6成
. . . zōng zhé chūn xùn shǒu ān , shǒu dǎ diǎn chū lú ! dà zhǎn xuǎn qiú yǎn shàng lěi lǜ pò 6 chéng
... Zongzhe's first hit in spring training and the first RBI are released! The on-base percentage of the big exhibition is over 60%
汤姆击出三垒安打。
Tāngmǔ jī chū sān lěi āndǎ.
Tom hit a triple.
不要在公园玩垒球。
Bù yào zài gōngyuán wán lěiqiú.
Don't play baseball in the park.
他垒球打得很好。
Tā lěiqiú dǎ de hěn hǎo.
He is good at baseball.
他每天都打垒球。
Tā měitiān dōu dǎ lěiqiú.
He plays baseball every day.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 土 (earth) component
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