Kanji1 / 7
来 kanji
come, due, next, cause, become
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
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
- —竹矢来bamboo enclosure
- —尽未来eternally; forever
- —未来形future tense
- —在来種native species
- —在来線conventional train line (esp. non-Shinkansen)
- —到来物present (received from someone); gift
- —過般来for some time
- —外来者stranger; visitor; outsider
- —渡来人Chinese and Korean people who settled in ancient Japan and introduced culture and technology from continental Asia (4th-7th centuries CE)
- —未来学futurology
- —新来者newcomer
- —来年度next year; next fiscal year
- —外来種introduced species; non-native species; alien species
- —外来魚introduced (non-native) fish species
- —伝来語loanword
- —如来禅Zen Buddhism based on the original teachings of Buddha
- —如来蔵tathagatagarbha (buddha-womb, the potential within all living things to become a buddha)
- —帰去来quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown
- —山帰来Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla); Smilax china (species of sarsaparilla)
- —ご来店coming to the store