| 来年 | lái nián | next year; the coming year |
| 来电 | lái diàn | incoming telegram or telephone call; your telegram, telephone call, or message; to send a telegram or make a telephone call here (i.e. to the speaker); to have instant attraction to sb; to have chemistry with sb; to come back (of electricity, after an outage) |
| 来安 | Lái ān | Lai'an county in Chuzhou 滁州, Anhui |
| 由来 | yóu lái | origin |
| 自古以来 | zì gǔ yǐ lái | since ancient times |
| 来历 | lái lì | history; antecedents; origin |
| 素来 | sù lái | usually |
| 反过来说 | fǎn guò lái shuō | on the other hand |
| 一般说来 | yī bān shuō lái | generally speaking; in general |
| 二来 | èr lái | in the second place; secondly |
| 自来 | zì lái | from the beginning; always; to come of one's own accord |
| 来客 | lái kè | guest |
| 本来面目 | běn lái miàn mù | true colors; true features |
| 来宾 | lái bīn | guest; visitor; Laibin prefecture level city in Guangxi; Zhuang: Leizbingz |
| 来由 | lái yóu | reason; cause |
| 如来 | rú lái | tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc) |
| 来意 | lái yì | one's purpose in coming |
| 古来 | gǔ lái | since ancient times; it has ever been the case that; see also 自古以来 |
| 来函 | lái hán | incoming letter; letter from afar; same as 来信 |
| 来龙去脉 | lái lóng qù mài | lit. mountain has a connecting pulse throughout like a dragon (idiom, from fengshui); sequence of events; pedigree; cause and effects; the whys and wherefores; where sth comes from and where it goes; ins and outs |
| 卷土重来 | juǎn tǔ chóng lái | to return in a swirl of dust; to make a stage comeback (idiom) |
| 突如其来 | tū rú qí lái | to arise abruptly; to arrive suddenly; happening suddenly |
| 继往开来 | jì wǎng kāi lái | to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition; forming a bridge between earlier and later stages |
| 到头来 | dào tóu lái | in the end; finally; as a result |
| 数来宝 | shǔ lái bǎo | folk theater consisting of recitation accompanied by clapper board rhythm |
| 胡来 | hú lái | to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules; to mess with sth; to make a hash of things; to cause trouble |
| 古往今来 | gǔ wǎng jīn lái | since ancient times; since times immemorial |
| 从…看来 | cóng kàn lai | on the basis of..., according to...; depending on... |
| …来说… | lái shuō | concerning, about |
| 对…来说 | duì lái shuō | as regards... |
| 总的来说 | zǒng de lái shuō | generally speaking; to sum up; in summary; in short |
| 拿…来说 | na2lai2shuo1 | |
| 推来推去 | tuī lái tuī qù | (idiom) to rudely push and pull others; (idiom) to evade responsibility and push it to others |
| 来回来去 | lái huí lái qù | repeatedly; back and forth again and again |
| 来源 | lái yuán | source (of information etc); origin |
| 来看 | lái kàn | to come and see; to see a topic from a certain point of view |
| 越来越… | yuè lái yuè | more and more |
| 这样一来 | zhè yàng yī lái | thus; if this happens then |
| 一来二去 | yī lái èr qù | gradually; little by little; in the course of time |
| 一直以来 | yī zhí yǐ lái | since always; until now |
| 一般来说 | yī bān lái shuō | generally speaking |
| 一般来讲 | yī bān lái jiǎng | generally speaking |
| 一路来 | yī lù lái | all the way; all along; since the start |
| 三十年来 | sān shí nián lái | for the past thirty years |
| 不来梅 | Bù lái méi | Bremen (city) |
| 不请自来 | bù qǐng zì lái | to turn up without being invited; unsolicited |
| 主要来源 | zhǔ yào lái yuán | principle source; main source |
| 仙客来 | xiān kè lái | cyclamen |
| 来去无踪 | lái qù wú zōng | come without a shadow, leave without a footprint (idiom); to come and leave without a trace |
| 来回来去地 | lái huí lái qù de | backwards and forwards |
