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來

Unicode: U+4F86

Pinyin: lài lái

Definition

lái:* 小麥。 * 由彼至此；由遠到近。與"去"、"往"相對。 * 招致；招之使來。 * 搞；幹；做。用以代替意義更具體的動詞。 胡來；來一個歌；我幹不了，你來。 《二十年目睹之怪現狀》第七十回："聽説那一位小姐，雅的是琴棋書畫，俗的是寫算操作，没有一件不來的。" * 用在另一動詞前，表示要做某件事。 我來畫；你來看一下；大家都來唱歌。《水滸全傳》第二十六回："不是這個乾娘，鄰舍家誰肯來幫我？" * 用在動詞後，表示估計或著眼於某一方面。 看來容易；說來話長。宋蘇軾《滿庭芳》："蝸角虚名，蠅頭微利，算來著甚乾忙。" * 用在動詞結構（或介詞結構）與動詞（或動詞結構）之間，表示前者是方法、方向或態度，後者是目的。金董解元 * 跟"得"或"不"連用，表示可能或不可能。 * 往昔，過去。 * 未來；將來。 來日方長；繼往開來。《荀子•解蔽》："不慕往，不閔來。"又指次於今年、此月、今天的。《書•召誥》："越若來三月……太保朝至于洛。" * 表示某一時間以後。 * 表某段時間。 * 指來孫。從本身算起的第六代孫。 * 助詞。① 表示比況，相當於"一樣"、"一般"。宋辛棄疾 * 語氣詞。用於句尾，相當於"咧"。 * 及。 * 古地名。 * 姓。 lài:* 勤勉；勸勉。 * 通"賚"。送給；賜予

come, coming; return, returning

Structure

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Related substructures

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Precursors

Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
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Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
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Chu Script
c. 770–221 BCE (Chu, Spring & Autumn–Warring States)
A regional script tradition used in the state of Chu, best known from brush-written bamboo and silk manuscripts with distinctive local forms.Wikipedia ->
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Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
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Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.Wikipedia ->
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Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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