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Kanji Detail for 來 - "come, arrive, future"
來
- Meaning
來 means "come, arrive, future."
Come - To approach; to arrive.
Future - What is to come.
Since - From a point in time.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
come; due; next; cause; become
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
come, coming; return, returning
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
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[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To arrive. | A word extending downward. (Mencius) "Since Confucius until now." Meaning from the time of Confucius to today. | A word of anticipation. Meaning hereafter. Like the colloquial 將來 (future). Such as 來日大難, meaning troubles lie ahead. | To comfort those who arrive is called 來. (Mencius) "Comfort them and bring them."
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