懒惰
lǎn duò · HSK 7
lazy
🦥 lǎn duò sounds like lawn-dough — too lazy to do anything but flop on the lawn
懒 + 惰 both mean lazy/indolent, and both carry the 忄 heart radical on the left — a doubled-up word where each half says the same thing.
懒 — heart radical 忄 + 賴/赖 (rely)
A semantic-phonetic compound: the heart radical 忄 signals an emotion or mental state, while 賴 (lài, 'to rely on') supplies the sound. The original idea was a mind that leans on others and avoids effort, which extended to the modern meaning 'lazy'.