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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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simplified

traditional

[edit] Etymology

It is shaped corn or wheat (similar to ), symbolizing the coming of the crops. Its ancient sound is beginning with "ml-". The meaning "come" is originally represented by , it is added the "foot". Their meanings have interchanged. M-remaining is 麥, l-remaining is 來.

[edit] Han character

(radical 9 +6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木人人 (DOO), four-corner 40908)

  1. come, coming
  2. return, returning

[edit] Descendants

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 101, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 581
  • Dae Jaweon: page 214, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 141, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+4F86

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(simplified , Yale loi4)


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[edit] Readings


[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul 래>내, revised rae>nae, McCune-Reischauer rae>nae)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(simplified , pinyin lái (lai2), Wade-Giles lai2)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(lai, lay, lơi, ray, rơi, rời)

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