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HSK
to come out / to appear / to arise
HSK 1
to come in
HSK 1
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  *来* | 来* | *来
to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来)
HSK 1
to return; to come back
HSK 1
to stand up; to get up / also pr. [qi3lai2]
HSK 1
original; former / originally; formerly; at first / so, actually, as it turns out
HSK 2
to bring / (fig.) to bring about; to produce
HSK 2
to come over / to manage / to handle / to be able to take care of
HSK 2
afterwards; later / newly arrived
HSK 2
to accept / to take / next / following
HSK 2
to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders)
HSK 3
always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence)
HSK 3
to come up / to approach / (verb complement indicating success)
HSK 3
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
since (a previous event)
HSK 3
in the future / future / the future / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
HSK 3
seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
HSK 3
future / tomorrow / CL: 個|个 / approaching / coming / pending
HSK 4
apparently / it seems that
HSK 4
to be used for
HSK 5
to arrive / arrival; advent
HSK 5
recently / lately
HSK 5
dealings / contacts / to go back and forth
HSK 6
to welcome (a visitor or newcomer) / (fig.) to usher in
HSK 6
external / foreign / outside
HSK 6
to come (formal) / before / previously
HSK 6
to arise abruptly / to arrive suddenly / happening suddenly
HSK 7-9
origin
HSK 7-9
to return / to come back
HSK 7-9
to waken
HSK 7-9
always (previously)
HSK 7-9
always / throughout (a period of time) / (of) all-time
HSK 7-9
conversely / in reverse order / in an opposite direction
HSK 7-9
in the end / finally / as a result
HSK 7-9
for the past many years
HSK 7-9
thus / if this happens then
HSK 7-9
take your time / take it easy
HSK 7-9
for the past few years
HSK 7-9
lit. sth hits one in the face / directly in one's face / sth assaults the senses / blatant (advertising) / eye-catching / (a smell) assaults the nostrils
HSK 7-9
thereby / judging from this
HSK 7-9
for a long time
HSK 7-9
(after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)
this past year / over the last years
firstly, ...
(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after ) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. ) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3lai5]
tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)
awkward / embarrassed / cannot be accomplished
Hebrew
to act recklessly / to mess around
from birth / by one's nature
it may be assumed that
Huailai county in Zhangjiakou 張家口|张家口, Hebei
Huilai county in Jieyang 揭陽|揭阳, Guangdong
since ancient times / since times immemorial
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules / to mess with sth / to make a hash of things / to cause trouble
Tailai county in Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔, Heilongjiang
to hover between life and death (idiom) / to suffer terribly / within an inch of one's life
Malaya / Malaysia
secondly, ...
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
from the beginning / always / to come of one's own accord
to come thick and fast (idiom)
extreme sorrow turns to joy (idiom)
consistently; always (in the past and now)
refrain (from doing sth) / (coll.) Come on! / Give me a break! / Save it!
in the past few days / lately
stretch a hand and grab it (idiom); very easy
to come one after the other
lit. proper behavior is based on reciprocity (idiom) / fig. to return politeness for politeness
Opportunity knocks but once. (idiom)
to get along with well; compatible
to come prepared
worth it / it pays to
to attract / to incur
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
(of people) to be incompatible; to not get along; to be unable to see eye to eye
(idiom) since birth; for one's whole life
cyclamen (loanword)
not worth it
Time that has passed will never come back. (idiom)
to observe the past to foresee the future (idiom, taken loosely from Book of Songs); studying ancient wisdom gives insight into what is to come
to be unaccustomed to certain food; to not be keen on certain food
to start over / to do sth all over again
to rush over
Wulai township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
in the past always / for a long time now / until now
since ancient times; it has ever been the case that
in my opinion
to arrive early
variant of 原來|原来
to stand up
since ancient times
to wake up from a sleep
(literary) recently; lately; hitherto
Polaroid
to bring sth to sb (news etc)

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