来

See also: 來, 夹, and 釆
来 U+6765, 来
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6765
← 杤
[U+6764]
CJK Unified Ideographs 杦 →
[U+6766]

Translingual

Traditional 來
Simplified 来
Japanese 来
Korean 來
Stroke order
7 strokes
Stroke order

Glyph origin

Variant of 來.

Han character

来 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木廿 (DT), composition ⿻未丷 or ⿻木䒑 or ⿻一米)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 513, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14489
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 21, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6765

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 来 – see 來 (“to come; to arrive; to happen; to occur; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 來).
Notes:

Japanese

Shinjitai

来

Kyūjitai

來

Kanji

来

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 來)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
来
らい
Grade: 2
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
來 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 來 (MC loj).

Compare modern Mandarin 來/来 (lái).

Pronunciation

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Prefix

来(らい) • (rai-) 

  1. next..., coming...
Derived terms

Suffix

来(らい) • (-rai) 

  1. since..., in...
    • 1944, Osamu Dazai, Tsugaru:
      この二(に)、三(さん)年(ねん)来(らい)、私(わたし)は青(あお)森(もり)市(し)へ二(に)、三(さん)度(ど)行(い)ったが...
      Kono ni, sannen-rai, watashi wa Aomori-shi e ni, sando itta ga
      I went to Aomori two or three times in the past two or three years...
      この二(に)、三(さん)年(ねん)来(らい)、私(わたし)は青(あお)森(もり)市(し)へ二(に)、三(さん)度(ど)行(い)ったが...
      Kono ni, sannen-rai, watashi wa Aomori-shi e ni, sando itta ga
      I went to Aomori two or three times in the past two or three years...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Affix

来(らい) • (rai) 

  1. coming, arriving
  2. coming, approaching, passing
  3. from (some point in the) past to present
  4. coming in time
Derived terms

Proper noun

来(らい) • (Rai) 

  1. a surname, especially of those descended from swordsmiths arriving from Goryeo around the mid-Kamakura period

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
来
く
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
來 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese 來 (ku).

Verb

来(く) • (ku) intransitive †-ko

  1. (archaic, obsolete) to come (approach one’s position from a remote location, specifically towards the speaker)
  2. (archaic, obsolete) to go (to a direction or place far from the speaker but near the listener)
  3. (archaic, suffixed to the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem form”) of a verb) to gradually begin to [verb]
Conjugation
Derived terms
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