来
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来 Stroke Order: How to Write 来

Pinyin
lái
Meaning
to come
Total strokes
7
More meanings

to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来); ever since (as in 自古以来); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来)

Stroke order
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来 — 7 strokes

Radical: 木 mù (tree)

Strokes in order

  1. 1.横héng · Horizontal stroke
  2. 2.点diǎn · Dot stroke
  3. 3.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
  4. 4.横héng · Horizontal stroke
  5. 5.竖shù · Vertical stroke
  6. 6.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
  7. 7.捺nà · Right-falling stroke
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