累

• Accumulation: To pile up; an additive process. In administrative or legal contexts, this refers to cumulative burdens, successive penalties, or layers of authority.
• Fatigue: Exhaustion resulting from repetition, weight, or prolonged effort.
• Implication/Entanglement: To involve others in a crime, mistake, or undesirable situation; to burden another through association.

• Verb (Transitive): To burden someone; to implicate or compromise another.
• Verb (Intransitive): To become exhausted or worn down.
• Adjective: Describing a state of fatigue or a cumulative quality.

Contrast with 疲 (biological/physical failure): 累 implies a state brought on by the "pile" of work or stress accumulated over time.

• Phonetics: A long-standing phonetic split exists between the senses of fatigue (lèi) and accumulate/implicate (lěi).
• Variants: U+7D2F, U+7E8D.