# 由來
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yóulái
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ ㄌㄞˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jau$^4$ loi$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): iû-lâi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): iu$^5$ lai$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yóulái
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ ㄌㄞˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yóulái
*** Wade–Giles: yu$^2$-lai$^2$
*** Yale: yóu-lái
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: youlai
*** Palladius: юлай (julaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /joʊ̯³⁵ laɪ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jau$^4$ loi$^4$
*** Yale: yàuh lòih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jau$^4$ loi$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yeo$^4$ loi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɐu̯²¹ lɔːi̯²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iû-lâi
*** Tâi-lô: iû-lâi
*** Phofsit Daibuun: iulaai
*** IPA (Xiamen): /iu²⁴⁻²² lai²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /iu²⁴⁻²² lai²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu¹³⁻²² lai¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /iu²⁴⁻¹¹ lai²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu²³⁻³³ lai²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: iu$^5$ lai$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iû lâi
*** Sinological IPA : /iu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ lai⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: yuw loj
Rime :
| Character | 由 | 來 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) | 咍 (41) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 以周切 | 洛哀切 |
| Baxter | yuw | loj |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jɨu/ | /lʌi/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jiu/ | /ləi/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /iəu/ | /lɒi/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /juw/ | /ləj/ |
| Li Rong | /iu/ | /lᴀi/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭəu/ | /lɒi/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /i̯ə̯u/ | /lɑ̆i/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yóu | lái |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jau$^4$ | loi$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*l[u] mə.rˤək/
    (Zhengzhang): /*lɯw m·rɯːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 由 | 來 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yóu | lái |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ yuw › | ‹ loj › |
| Old Chinese | /*l[u]/ | /*mə.rˁək/ (> *rˁə) |
| English | follow; from | come |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 由 | 來 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 15526 | 7598 |
| Phonetic component | 由 | 來 |
| Rime group | 幽 | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 猷 | |
| Old Chinese | /*lɯw/ | /*m·rɯːɡ/ |

### Noun

由來
* origin; source
    From: Shen Yue, Book of Song, 492-493 CE
    Wú chǔ huái qī wù, zì yǒu yóulái. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* time since the beginning of the something (till now)
    From: I Ching, 11th – 8th century BCE
    Chén shì qí jūn, zǐ shì qí fù, fēi yī zhāo yī xī zhī gù, qí yóulái zhě jiàn yǐ. [Pinyin]
    The murder of a ruler by his minister, or of his father by a son, is not the result of the events of one morning or one evening.

#### Synonyms

* (origin):
* 來源 / 来源 (láiyuán)
* 出處 / 出处
* 基本 (jīběn)
* 大本 (dàběn) (literary)
* 本源 (běnyuán)
* 根 (gēn)
* 根本 (gēnběn)
* 根源 (gēnyuán)
* 根頭 / 根头 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
* 泉源 (quányuán)
* 淵源 / 渊源 (yuānyuán)
* 源 (yuán) (literary, or in compounds)
* 源泉 (yuánquán) (figurative)
* 源頭 / 源头 (yuántóu) (figurative)
* 濫觴 / 滥觞 (lànshāng) (literary)
* 起源 (qǐyuán)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 由 | 來 |
| ゆ Grade: 3 | らい Jinmeiyō |
| goon ||
For pronunciation and definitions of 由來 – see the following entry. :
| 【由来ゆらい】 | [adverb] originally [noun] origin [noun] source [verb] to derive, to proceed from, to originate |
(This term, 由來, is the kyūjitai of the above term.) :

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 由 | 來 |

### Noun

由來 • (yurae) (hangeul 유래)
* hanja form of 유래 (“origin; origination”)