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HSK
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 in
HSK 1
to come up / to approach / (verb complement indicating success)
HSK 3
original; former / originally; formerly; at first / so, actually, as it turns out
HSK 2
in the future / future / the future / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to bring / (fig.) to bring about; to produce
HSK 2
to return; to come back
HSK 1
to come out / to appear / to arise
HSK 1
always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence)
HSK 3
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  *来* | 来* | *来
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
(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
HSK 3
to stand up; to get up / also pr. [qi3lai2]
HSK 1
afterwards; later / newly arrived
HSK 2
seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
HSK 3
apparently / it seems that
HSK 4
future / tomorrow / CL: 個|个 / approaching / coming / pending
HSK 4
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
since (a previous event)
HSK 3
to come over / to manage / to handle / to be able to take care of
HSK 2
to arrive / arrival; advent
HSK 5
recently / lately
HSK 5
to come (formal) / before / previously
HSK 6
to accept / to take / next / following
HSK 2
for the past many years
HSK 7-9
always / throughout (a period of time) / (of) all-time
HSK 7-9
take your time / take it easy
HSK 7-9
to be used for
HSK 5
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
secondly, ...
since ancient times / since times immemorial
for a long time
HSK 7-9
this past year / over the last years
to return / to come back
HSK 7-9
thereby / judging from this
HSK 7-9
conversely / in reverse order / in an opposite direction
HSK 7-9
origin
HSK 7-9
Amitabha, Buddha of infinite light
external / foreign / outside
HSK 6
in the past always / for a long time now / until now
to arise abruptly / to arrive suddenly / happening suddenly
HSK 7-9
in the end / finally / as a result
HSK 7-9
always (previously)
HSK 7-9
for the past few years
HSK 7-9
for the past several years
to earn back (money one invested, wasted etc)
(after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)
firstly, ...
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
(idiom) since birth; for one's whole life
to have more work than one can deal with / to have one's hands full
to be unable to breathe
to welcome (a visitor or newcomer) / (fig.) to usher in
HSK 6
lit. proper behavior is based on reciprocity (idiom) / fig. to return politeness for politeness
generally speaking / in general
to bring sth to sb (news etc)
inherent / innate
dealings / contacts / to go back and forth
HSK 6
Vairocana, Buddha of supreme enlightenment
to start over / to do sth all over again
to act recklessly / to mess around
to stop
for the past few days
Polaroid
(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]
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
Hebrew
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
to come to a place on account of its reputation (idiom); attracted to visit a famous location
(of people) to be incompatible; to not get along; to be unable to see eye to eye
tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)
Time that has passed will never come back. (idiom)
(literary) recently; lately; hitherto
refrain (from doing sth) / (coll.) Come on! / Give me a break! / Save it!
since the beginning of history
to waken
HSK 7-9
from birth / by one's nature
bring it on! / give me all you got!
to turn one's head; to turn around / (fig.) to return (to a previous point); to come back (to what one was saying before) / (fig.) to look back (in time); to reflect on the past
from the beginning / always / to come of one's own accord
Futurama (US TV animated series, 1999-)
to rush over
to sound like
Medicine Buddha (Sanskrit: Bhaisajyaguru)
(coll.) to get enthusiastic; to put in all one's energy
to remember / to recall
recently / until now / up to the present / lately / also written 爾來|尔来
awkward / embarrassed / cannot be accomplished
to be bustling with customers
to own up to the facts
not worth it
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
to come when called (idiom); ready and compliant / always at sb's beck and call
to wake up from a sleep
to overturn / to turn upside down
cyclamen (loanword)
to attract / to incur
to emerge; to pop up; to spring forth; to appear from nowhere
lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly
to come thick and fast (idiom)
since ancient times; it has ever been the case that

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