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U+6765, 来
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6765

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Traditional
Simplified
Japanese
Korean
Stroke order
7 strokes
Stroke order

Glyph origin

Variant of .

Han character

(Kangxi radical 75, +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木廿 (DT), composition or or )

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

Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Second grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
らい
Grade: 2
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese (MC loj).

Compare modern Mandarin (lái).

Pronunciation

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Prefix

(らい) (rai-

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

Suffix

(らい) (-rai

  1. since..., in...
    • 1944, Osamu Dazai, Tsugaru:
      この()(さん)(ねん)(らい)(わたし)(あお)(もり)()()(さん)()()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

(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

(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

Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Verb

() (ki

  1. stem or continuative form of 来る (kuru)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese (ku).

Verb

() (kuintransitive -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
Conjugation
Derived terms