lái

goosefoot weed

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

来 sound component

  Sound component

lái

  

come

Evolution

莱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莱 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
莱 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
莱 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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lái

goosefoot, weed; fallow field; name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album

Most common words with 莱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Chenopodium album

好莱坞

Hollywood

布莱尔

Blair (name)

克莱尔

Claire (name)

布莱恩

Brian (name)