雷
léiLéi HSK4

thunder

雷 léi frequency
thunder noun

打雷了，好像要下大雨。

dǎ léi le, hǎo​xiàng yào xià dà​yǔ.

It's thundering; it looks like it's going to rain heavily.

mine verb
a land or sea mine; an explosive device

士兵正在这片海域进行排雷工作。

shì​bīng zhèng​zài zhè piàn hǎi​yù jìn​xíng pái léi gōng​zuò.

Soldiers are conducting minesweeping operations in these waters.

shocking verb
to shock, stun, or astound, often by something bizarre or tacky

这部电视剧的台词真雷。

zhè bù diàn​shì​jù de tái​cí zhēn léi.

The lines in this TV drama are really cringey.

spoiler verb
a plot spoiler or to reveal plot details to someone

我还没看电影，请不要雷我。

wǒ hái méi kàn diàn​yǐng, qǐng bù yào léi wǒ.

I haven't seen the movie yet, so please don't spoil it for me.

雷 Léi
Lei proper name
surname Lei

雷先生在开会。

Léi xiān​sheng zài kāi​huì.

Mr. Lei is in a meeting.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
686th most common 285.4 per million
Movie subtitles
648th most common 210.2 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
85.6 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
67.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+96F7

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)