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lái to come

7 strokesTraditional 來

Where the shape comes from

Originally a picture of a wheat plant, borrowed for its sound and never given back. The traditional form 來 shows the ears of grain more clearly.

Write it

Watch the order first, then trace it with the guide, then write it from memory. The model comes back over your strokes so you can see where the shape drifted.

Press Watch to see the stroke order.

Stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi via Hanzi Writer, Arphic Public License.

Three words that use it

来了lái lehere it comes
后来hòuláilater on
原来yuánláiit turns out that

Watch out

The mistake people make

Writing the two short strokes before the long vertical. The vertical goes through the middle early.

The traditional form

In Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau this character is written . It is the same word with the same sound and meaning. This course teaches the simplified form, and the traditional one is here so you recognise it when you see it.