First opened Saturday, March 14, 2009
来
らい～
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next ~
来, “next ~”, comes from Middle Chinese 來 (MC loj).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 来
In a sentence
来年末までで、ここで働き始めてどれくらいの期間になりますか。
How long will you have been working here by the end of next year?
彼女は数ヶ月来はじめて悲しく思った。
She was sad for the first time in months.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From Middle Chinese 來 (MC loj).”
- “Compare modern Mandarin 來／来 (lái).”
Source: Wiktionary: 来 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 来 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not らい～. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
く
- “From Old Japanese 來 (ku).”
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.