來 (lái)
to come/to arrive/(before verb) to do something
How 來 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 來
- Simplified
- 来
Components
- 木 tree
- 从 N/A
Common words using 來
- 來自 láizì
- to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
- 出來 chūlái
- to come out; to emerge
- 原來 yuánlái
- original; former; originally
- 回來 huílai
- to return; to come back
- 起來 qǐlai
- to stand up; to get up; (after a verb) with an upward movement
- 越來越 yuèláiyuè
- more and more
- 上來 shànglái
- to come up; to approach; (verb complement indicating success)
- 下來 xiàlai
- to come down; (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us)
- 以來 yǐlái
- since (a previous event)
- 來到 láidào
- to come; to arrive
- 來回 láihuí
- to make a round trip; return journey; back and forth
- 來年 láinián
- next year; the coming year
來 in a sentence
你明天有空來我家玩嗎？
Nǐ míngtiān yǒu kòng lái wǒ jiā wán ma?
“Are you free to come over to my place tomorrow?”
How common is 來?
來 is the 15th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 17.1% of all running text.
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