来

to come

No. 19 most used · 0.71% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 140.

How it's built

• 一one
• 米rice

A way to remember it

It began as a drawing of wheat, and 米 is still in it: the grain that comes each year.

Words

• 回来

  huí lai

  to return; to come back
• 起来

  qǐ lai

  to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2]
• 出来

  chū lái

  to come out; to appear; to arise
• 过来

  guò lái

  to come over; to manage; to handle
• 看起来

  kàn qǐ lai

  seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
• 进来

  jìn lái

  to come in

Sentences

• 他今天不见得会来。

  tā jīn tiān bú jiàn de huì lái

  He is unlikely to come today.
• 他从什么地方来的？

  tā cóng shén me dì fāng lái de

  Where does he come from?
• 他很快就会回来的。

  tā hěn kuài jiù huì huí lai de

  He will be back soon.
• 他想和我们一起来。

  tā xiǎng hé wǒ men yì qǐ lái

  He wants to come with us.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.