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来 kanji
come, due, next, cause, become
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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ライタイ
Kun readings
くるきたるきたすきたすきたるきこ
Variant forms
來Words with 来
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —専門外来specialist outpatient department
- —外来診療outpatient care; ambulatory care
- —近接未来immediate future; near future
- —従来通りas before; as usual; the way it used to be
- —来週明けearly next week; (at the) beginning of next week
- —往古来今in all ages; since antiquity
- —生き如来living Buddha; saintly Buddhist monk
- —救急外来emergency outpatient care
- —黒船来航Perry Expedition (1853); arrival of the Black Ships
- —来客芳名録guest book
- —本来の面目one's true nature
- —未来進行形future progressive form; future progressive tense
- —本来受信者preferred recipient
- —外来生物法Invasive Alien Species Act
- —その時以来since that time; since then; from that point (on)
- —阿弥陀如来Amitabha Tathagata; Amithaba
- —年初来高値yearly high (stocks)
- —来賓講演者guest speaker
- —来賓演説者guest speaker
- —本来無一物all things are essentially nothingness; all things come from nothingness; originally, there was nothing; Zen reminder to free oneself from attachments