来 (lái) means Come (arrive). Below are 24 of the 476 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
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From the graded readers
信是奶奶寄 来 的。
xìn shì nǎinai jì lái de / dì.
It was from my grandmother.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
我一下子说不出话 来 。
wǒ yíxiàzi shuō bùchū huà lái.
For a moment I couldn't say anything.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
不过我从 来 没有后悔过。
búguò wǒ cónglái méiyǒu hòuhuǐ guò.
But I have never regretted it.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
妈妈做鱼的时候，它就 来 了。
māma zuò yú de / dì shíhou, tā jiù lái le / liǎo / liào.
The moment mum cooks fish, he shows up.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat
这个周末我本 来 有很多打算。
zhège zhōumò wǒ běnlái yǒu hěnduō dǎsuàn.
I had a lot of plans for this weekend.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
去年爸爸 来 看我工作的地方。
qùnián bàba láikàn wǒ gōngzuò de / dì dìfang.
Last year my father came to see where I work.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
他昨天 来 了。
Tā zuótiān lái le.
He came yesterday.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 了 — completed action and change of state
他跑出 来 了。
Tā pǎo chūlái le.
He ran out.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · Directional complements — 上来, 下去, 出来
来 appears in 476 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 来
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 来
How is 来 used in a sentence?
This page shows 476 sentences using 来 (lái, "Come (arrive)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 来 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 来 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 来 an HSK word?
Yes — 来 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 来?
The dictionary page for 来 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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