lái
come
Original meaning:
wheat
Simplified form of 來. Pictograph of a stalk of wheat. The current meaning "come" is a phonetic loan. The original meaning "wheat" is now written as 麥.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 来
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to come | ||
also pr. [qǐlai] | ||
to come out | ||
to return | ||
to come over |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.9840% of movies
16th most common character in movies
15th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6765 |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.465
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