Kanji 来

音読おんよみ: ライ

訓読くんよみ: くる・きたる・きたす

画数かくすう: 7 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 木(き)

Meaning

come, arrive, next, upcoming


  • る — to come
  • きたる — to arrive (literary)
  • 来週らいしゅう — next week
  • 未来みらい — future
  • 来日らいにち — coming to Japan

The traditional form of this kanji (來) shows wheat growing upward. It was borrowed for its meaning "to come." The simplified version 来 is used in modern Japanese. It appears frequently in both time-related and motion-related words.

きのう、友達ともだちました。
My friend came yesterday.

来週らいしゅう、テストがあります。
There is a test next week.

🎧 Practice the native pronunciation of 来.

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