来

Variant of 來.

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

• 俫 崃 徕 涞 梾 睐 𪎌 铼 𣑎 𣘾 𣜻 赉 莱 慭

• 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

(Second grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 來)

• Go-on: らい (rai, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: らい (rai, Jōyō)
• Kun: くる (kuru, 来る, Jōyō)、きたる (kitaru, 来る, Jōyō)、きたす (kitasu, 来す, Jōyō)、きし (kishi, 来し)、こし (koshi, 来し)
• Nanori: き (ki)、こ (ko)、な (na)、ゆき (yuki)

• 再来(さらい) (sarai-)
• 出来(しゅったい) (shuttai)

From Middle Chinese 來 (MC loj).

Compare modern Mandarin 來／来 (lái).

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• (Tokyo) らい [ráꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɾa̠i]

来(らい) • (rai-) 

1. next..., coming...

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...

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来(らい) • (rai) 

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

来(らい) • (Rai) 

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

• (Tokyo) き [kíꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [kʲi]

来(き) • (ki) 

1. stem or continuative form of 来る (kuru)

From Old Japanese 來 (ku).

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]