Pinyin: léi

thunder

Example sentence

外面又打雷又下雨。

Wàimiàn yòu dǎ léi yòu xià yǔ.

It's thundering and raining outside.

What 雷 means

(léi) is a Chinese word meaning “thunder”. It belongs to the Time & Nature topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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