Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Variants:
come, due, next, cause, become
Jinmeiyō variant of a jōyō kanji, used in names

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 来月 【ライゲツ】 next month
  • 来年 【ライネン】 next year
  • 再来 【サイライ】 return, coming back, second coming (e.g. of Christ), second advent, reincarnation
  • 如来 【ニョライ】 Tathagata, perfected one (suffix of high-ranking Buddhist deities)

Kun reading compounds

  • 来る 【くる】 to come (spatially or temporally), to approach, to arrive, to come back, to do ... and come back, to come to be, to become, to get, to grow, to continue, to come from, to be caused by, to derive from, to come to (e.g. "when it comes to spinach ...")

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lai2
Korean:
rae

Spanish

Portuguese

French

204 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
756 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4387 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2988 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
581 Morohashi
3570 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
173 New Nelson (John Haig)
0a7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-3 SKIP code
4090.8 Four corner code
1-48-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f86 Unicode hex code