“拖累” 的读音

[AlexL]

大家好，

I've just bought NPCR 5 and have started studying lesson 51. The wordlist includes 拖累, with the pinyin “tuō lèi". I'd been reading it like this and my teacher seems to read it like this too. However, in every dictionary I've checked, 累 is given the third tone (tuōlěi). Any help on which is "correct"? Is this an issue that many native speakers mix up?

Thanks!

Alex

[valikor]

I have no idea but my Chinese girlfriend said that tuo1 lei3 is undoubtedly wrong.

The two dictionaries that I checked both said lei3.

I guess this doesn't help you much, but apparently Yunnuan people would say lei4. I don't know where your teacher is from...

[creamyhorror]

Really? I thought it was tuo1 lei3.

[daofeishi]

I've always heard it as tuo1 lei4, and that is how I would pronounce it myself.

[semantic nuance]

I've heard it both ways.

[Kenny同志]

I say tuo1lei4.

The pronunciation of some characters is changing. Personally, I’ve heard tuo1 lei4 spoken far oftener than tuo1 lei3, the correct pronunciation indicated in the dictionary. Two more instances are 角色（jue2se4）and 暂时（zan4shi2）, which, it seems, are more and more being pronounced as jiao3se4 and zhan4shi2 respectively.

[joshuawbb]

I too came across the same issue. NPCR5 says tuo1 lei4; my girlfriend, her friends and NJStar dictionary all say tuo1 lei3, etc... One of my teachers says she doesn't know, but has often used tuo1 lei3. She gave the impression that it wouldn't hurt to choose one to stick with, then change the pronunciation if someone doesn't catch the way you've said it.

I think it might be a regional thing. It's a total guess, but maybe tuo1 lei4 is more used further north, whilst tuo1 lei3 is used more in southern areas, e,g, Fujian. My girlfriend and her friends said they had always used tuo1 lei3, and they are from nearby areas in Fujian.

[mushroom]

by 教育部重編國語辭典修訂本

累 3

accumulate, 累積、日積月累

increase , 倍賞累罰

frequent, 經年累月

stacked, 危於累卵

累 4

tired, 上班好累

implicate, 拖累、連累、受累、累及他人

waste, 虧累

to harm, 終累大德

to trust, 累我以民