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to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders)
HSK 3
to come out / to appear / to arise
HSK 1
since (a previous event)
HSK 3
original; former / originally; formerly; at first / so, actually, as it turns out
HSK 2
to come up / to approach / (verb complement indicating success)
HSK 3
to stand up; to get up / also pr. [qi3lai2]
HSK 1
to bring / (fig.) to bring about; to produce
HSK 2
to be used for
HSK 5
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
afterwards; later / newly arrived
HSK 2
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  *來* | 來* | *來
to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来)
HSK 1
future / tomorrow / CL: 個|个 / approaching / coming / pending
HSK 4
to arrive / arrival; advent
HSK 5
(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
HSK 3
to return; to come back
HSK 1
to come in
HSK 1
always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence)
HSK 3
seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
HSK 3
to accept / to take / next / following
HSK 2
in the future / future / the future / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to come over / to manage / to handle / to be able to take care of
HSK 2
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
to come (formal) / before / previously
HSK 6
apparently / it seems that
HSK 4
always (previously)
HSK 7-9
recently / lately
HSK 5
dealings / contacts / to go back and forth
HSK 6
(after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)
Opportunity knocks but once. (idiom)
always / throughout (a period of time) / (of) all-time
HSK 7-9
external / foreign / outside
HSK 6
to welcome (a visitor or newcomer) / (fig.) to usher in
HSK 6
to return / to come back
HSK 7-9
conversely / in reverse order / in an opposite direction
HSK 7-9
in the past always / for a long time now / until now
in the end / finally / as a result
HSK 7-9
to stop
since ancient times / since times immemorial
to sound like
for the past many years
HSK 7-9
generally speaking / in general
to remember / to recall
in my opinion
to waken
HSK 7-9
lit. sth hits one in the face / directly in one's face / sth assaults the senses / blatant (advertising) / eye-catching / (a smell) assaults the nostrils
HSK 7-9
for a long time
HSK 7-9
this past year / over the last years
take your time / take it easy
HSK 7-9
to get better / to improve / to get well
directly / head-on (collision) / in one's face (of wind)
for the past few years
HSK 7-9
to own up to the facts
for the past few days
stretch a hand and grab it (idiom); very easy
thereby / judging from this
HSK 7-9
thus / if this happens then
HSK 7-9
to get along with well; compatible
to come to a place on account of its reputation (idiom); attracted to visit a famous location
origin
HSK 7-9
to put together
lit. proper behavior is based on reciprocity (idiom) / fig. to return politeness for politeness
all the way; all along; since the start
(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after ) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. ) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3lai5]
for the past several years
to come one after the other
He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom). / Be careful not to trust foreigners. / Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!
Futurama (US TV animated series, 1999-)
to use force
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly
to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc) / to ring (true) / to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression) / to hear from somewhere
to start over / to do sth all over again
to act recklessly / to mess around
(of people) to be incompatible; to not get along; to be unable to see eye to eye
to be unable to breathe
worth it / it pays to
since the beginning of history
Hebrew
Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定 "Red Poppies"
tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)
Vairocana, Buddha of supreme enlightenment
to arise abruptly / to arrive suddenly / happening suddenly
HSK 7-9
it may be assumed that
Wulai township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
(but) then again; (but) on the other hand
to bring sth to sb (news etc)
to come when called (idiom); ready and compliant / always at sb's beck and call
to come prepared
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
firstly, ...
to wake up from a sleep
awkward / embarrassed / cannot be accomplished
to turn up without being invited / unsolicited
to emerge; to pop up; to spring forth; to appear from nowhere
to crop up / to pop up / to emerge abruptly
to die / one's allocated lifespan is accomplished
to stand up
to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules / to mess with sth / to make a hash of things / to cause trouble
to bring / to fetch / to get

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