来 lái
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Made of
- 未 not yet 丷 kwukyel
- 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.