lái
goosefoot weed
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 來 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 萊
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Chenopodium album | ||
Hollywood | ||
Blair (name) | ||
Claire (name) | ||
Brian (name) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 27.7751% of movies
621st most common character in movies
1196th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+840A |
Shuowen | “萊,蔓華也。从艸,來聲。” |
Sources
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