来 lái
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Made of
- 未 not yet 丷 horns
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
来到
láidào
to arrive, to come to
Characters in this word
到 dào
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 至 reach, arrive 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我们来到学校了。 Wǒmen láidào xuéxiào le. We've arrived at school.
- 他来到我家。 Tā láidào wǒ jiā. He came to my home.
- 他们来到中国。 Tāmen láidào Zhōngguó. They arrived in China.
- 她来到北京了。 Tā láidào Běijīng le. She has arrived in Beijing.
- 我们来到饭店吃饭。 Wǒmen láidào fàndiàn chīfàn. We came to the restaurant to eat.
- 小王没来到学校。 Xiǎo Wáng méi láidào xuéxiào. Xiao Wang didn't come to school.
- 他们来到车站了。 Tāmen láidào chēzhàn le. They arrived at the station.
- 妈妈来到商店买菜。 Māma láidào shāngdiàn mǎi cài. Mom came to the shop to buy vegetables.
- 李月明天来到学校。 Lǐ Yuè míngtiān láidào xuéxiào. Li Yue will come to school tomorrow.
- 你几点来到这里？ Nǐ jǐ diǎn láidào zhèlǐ? What time will you come here?
Related words
- 出来 chūlái to come out
- 回来 huílái to come back
- 进来 jìnlái to come in
- 来 lái to come
- 起来 qǐlai to get up, to stand up; to start (doing)
- 带来 dàilái to bring; to cause
- 过来 guòlái to come over
- 后来 hòulái later; afterward
- 接下来 jiēxiàlái next; after this
- 来自 láizì to come from
- 原来 yuánlái so it was; originally
- 越来越 yuèláiyuè more and more