粵

Cantonese · Jyutping

Mandarin · Pinyin

  • lái

English

  1. come, coming
  2. to come
  3. to arrive; to come
  4. used after a verb phrase to indicate that an action or event has just occurred
  5. used at the end of a copular sentence to emphasise that the two things in question (i.e. the subject and object) are identical, or that the latter is a description of the former; usage is similar to 係 hai6
  6. to come; to arrive; see 嚟 lai4
  7. coming, a prefix added in front of a noun or measure word indicating time
  8. return, returning
  9. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  10. to bring something
  11. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5])
  12. ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2])
  13. for the past (amount of time)
  14. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4])
  15. (between two verbs) in order to
  16. (after a round number) approximately
  17. (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])

粵語

  1. 由另一個地方去你而家身處嘅地方
  2. 放喺動詞短語之後，表示動作／事件啱啱過咗去
  3. 加喺名詞句句尾，用途近似「係」，用嚟強調句中嗰兩樣嘢（主語同賓語）係同一概念或者後者係前者嘅描述
  4. 睇「嚟」
  5. 加喺時間名詞或量詞之前嘅前綴：下一個
  6. 迎接某啲嘢，帶某啲嘢

Decomposition

Structure

⿻木从

IDS

⿻木从

Components

木从

Stroke order

As a component in · 110

Variants

Words containing 來

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