# 嚟

| 嚟 | U+569F, &#22175; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-569F |
| ← 嚞 [U+569E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嚠 → [U+56A0] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嚟 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 口竹竹水 (RHHE), composition ⿰口黎)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 213, character 11
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4533
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 700, character 5
* Unihan data for U+569F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 黎 (lai4)

### Etymology

Vernacular reading of 來／来.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lí (li$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lai$^4$ / lei$^4$ / lai$^{4-2}$ / lei$^{4-2}$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lí
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lí
*** Wade–Giles: li$^2$
*** Yale: lí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
*** Palladius: ли (li)
*** Sinological IPA : /li³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lai$^4$ / lei$^4$ / lai$^{4-2}$ / lei$^{4-2}$
*** Yale: làih / lèih / lái / léi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lai$^4$ / lei$^4$ / lai$^{4-2}$ / lei$^{4-2}$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lei$^4$ / léi$^4$ / lei$^{4-2}$ / léi$^{4-2}$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɐi̯²¹/, /lei̯²¹/, /lɐi̯²¹⁻³⁵/, /lei̯²¹⁻³⁵/
* lai4-2, lei4-2 - “to come; to occur”.

### Definitions

嚟 (Cantonese)
* to come; to arrive
       ngo$^5$ soeng$^2$ lai$^4$ taam$^3$ nei$^5$. [Jyutping]
       I'd like to come and visit you.
* to bring
       lai$^4$ do$^1$ jat$^1$ wun$^2$ caa$^1$ siu$^1$ faan$^6$. [Jyutping]
       Bring me another bowl of rice with barbecue pork.
* to; for (expresses purpose)
       ngo$^5$ maai$^5$ zo$^2$ di$^1$ gai$^1$ daan$^{6-2}$ lai$^4$ zing$^2$ daan$^6$ taat$^1$. [Jyutping]
       I bought some eggs to make egg tarts.
* Used to indicate that an event has just occurred
       nei$^5$ tai$^2$ jyun$^4$ hei$^3$ lai$^4$ aa$^4$? [Jyutping]
       Did you just watch a movie?
    From: 1828, Robert Morrison, Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect, part III, section I
    nei$^5$ heoi$^3$ bin$^1$ cyu$^3$ lai$^4$ [Jyutping]
    Where have you been?
* Used to emphasize that the identity of the subject is the object
    邊個嚟㗎？／边个嚟㗎？ [Cantonese] ― bin$^1$ go$^3$ lai$^4$ gaa$^3$? [Jyutping] ― Who is this?
    咩嚟？ [Cantonese] ― me$^1$ lai$^4$? [Jyutping] ― (highly informal) What's that?
       ni$^1$ zek$^3$ hai$^6$ gau$^2$ lai$^4$ ge$^3$. [Jyutping]
       This is a dog.
    貓嚟㗎。／猫嚟㗎。 [Cantonese] ― maau$^1$ lai$^4$ gaa$^3$. [Jyutping] ― It's a cat.
       keoi$^5$ gung$^1$ cing$^4$ si$^1$ lai$^4$ gaa$^3$. [Jyutping]
       They are an engineer.
** 1952, 唐龍, directed by 潘炳權, 契爺艷史 [Foster-Daddy's Romantic Affairs]‎, spoken by 梁劍雲 (羅劍郎):
       ngo$^5$ m$^4$ hai$^6$ nei$^5$ wan$^4$ go$^1$, ngo$^5$ hai$^6$ ni$^1$ dou$^6$ ge$^3$ gu$^3$ haak$^3$ lei$^4$. [Jyutping]
       I am not your Big Brother Wan; I am a customer here.
** 2017, 小婉婉, 《P牌社工蝦碌碌：社福界小薯仔嘅讀書＋實習手記》, Hong Kong: 非凡出版社, →ISBN, page 43:
       jyu$^4$ gwo$^2$ man$^6$ ngo$^5$ se$^5$ gung$^1$ hai$^6$ me$^1$ lai$^4$, ngo$^5$ wui$^5$ gok$^3$ dak$^1$ hou$^2$ ci$^5$ jat$^1$ go$^3$ “bou$^2$ kap$^1$ zaam$^6$”. [Jyutping]
       If you ask me what a social worker is, I would think it is like a depot.
* Used before a verb to express volition.
       dang$^2$ ngo$^5$ lai$^4$ zou$^6$ laa$^1$. [Jyutping]
       Wait for me to do it.
* (of events) to occur

#### Usage notes

* Cantonese 嚟 is the direct equivalent of Modern Standard Chinese's 來／来 (lái), but there are some fixed phrases where 來 cannot be substituted with 嚟. For example, 出來／出来 (chūlái) is equivalent to 出嚟 but 原來如此／原来如此 (yuánláirúcǐ) cannot become *原嚟如此.

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 來 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 來 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 來 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 來 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Malaysia | 來 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 來 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 嚟 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 嚟 |
| Cantonese | Macau | 嚟 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 來 |
| Cantonese | Qingyuan | 來 |
| Cantonese | Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) | 嚟 |
| Cantonese | Singapore (Guangfu) | 嚟 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 來 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 來 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 來 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 來 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 來 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 來 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 來 |
| Eastern Min | Singapore (Fuqing) | 來 |
| Eastern Min | Sitiawan (Gutian) | 來 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 來 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 來 |
| Southern Min | Dehua | 來 |
| Southern Min | Taipei | 來 |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Sanxia) | 來 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung | 來 |
| Southern Min | Yilan | 來 |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Lukang) | 來 |
| Southern Min | Taichung | 來 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 來 |
| Southern Min | Hsinchu | 來 |
| Southern Min | Kinmen | 來 |
| Southern Min | Penghu (Magong) | 來 |
| Southern Min | Penang (Hokkien) | 來 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 來 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 來 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 來 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 來 |
| Southern Min | Shantou (Chaoyang) | 來 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Teochew) | 來 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 來 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 來 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 來 |
| Wu | Hangzhou (Yuhang) | 來 |

### Compounds

* 上嚟
* 亂咁嚟／乱咁嚟
* 亂嚟／乱嚟
* 入嚟
* 再嚟過／再嚟过
* 冤枉嚟，瘟疫去
* 出嚟
* 出嚟蒲
* 出嚟行
* 吊起嚟賣／吊起嚟卖
* 吊高嚟賣／吊高嚟卖
* 唔衰攞嚟衰／唔衰𫽋嚟衰
* 嚟嚟去去
* 嚟得切
* 嚟真
* 嚟講／嚟讲
* 埋嚟
* 天跌落嚟當被冚／天跌落嚟当被冚
* 夾得嚟／夹得嚟
* 定啲嚟
* 就嚟
* 後嚟／后嚟
* 得嚟
* 愛嚟／爱嚟
* 揸正嚟做
* 搵得嚟使得去／揾得嚟使得去
* 搵苦嚟辛／揾苦嚟辛
* 攞嚟／𫽋嚟
* 攞嚟搞／𫽋嚟搞
* 攞嚟衰／𫽋嚟衰
* 攞苦嚟辛／𫽋苦嚟辛
* 照咁睇嚟
* 用嚟
* 睇嚟
* 睇嚟湊／睇嚟凑
* 總括嚟講／总括嚟讲
* 自古以嚟
* 落嚟
* 講嚟講去／讲嚟讲去
* 講嚟講去三幅被／讲嚟讲去三幅被
* 講起上嚟／讲起上嚟
* 講起嚟／讲起嚟
* 起上嚟
* 起嚟
* 越嚟越
* 跟住落嚟
* 辛苦搵嚟自在食／辛苦揾嚟自在食
* 返上嚟
* 返入嚟
* 返出嚟
* 返嚟
* 返埋嚟
* 返落嚟
* 返過嚟／返过嚟
* 返開嚟／返开嚟
* 過嚟／过嚟
* 遲嚟先走／迟嚟先走
* 開嚟／开嚟

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): り (ri)