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Mythic Mandarin

出来 (chū lái): meaning and stroke order

出来 (chū lái) means to come out, to appear, to arise.

出来

Simplified
出来
Traditional
出來
Pinyin
chū lái · chu lai

Stroke order of 出来

出

  • chū to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur
  • chū variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 齣

Stroke by stroke

来

  • lái to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 來

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 出来

  1. chū lái Traditional 出來
    • to come out
    • to appear
    • to arise
  2. chu lai Traditional 出來
    • (after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)

Radicals of the characters

出
Radical 凵 (Kangxi radical 17) · 5 strokes · 屮 on top, 凵 below
来
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · built from 未 and 丷

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

出来 in our stories

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  • 教练告诉她:“别着急,力气是一点儿一点儿练出来的。”

    jiàoliàn gàosu tā bié zháojí lìqi shì yìdiǎnr yìdiǎnr liàn chūlai de

    Her coach told her, "Don't rush. Strength is built little by little."

    From the story Pull-ups HSK 4

  • 中午,一个美丽的姑娘从水缸里走了出来,开始做饭。

    zhōngwǔ yí gè měilì de gūniang cóng shuǐgāng lǐ zǒu le chūlai kāishǐ zuò fàn

    At noon a beautiful girl stepped out of the water jar and began to cook.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

  • 沉香长大以后,才知道自己的妈妈被压在山下,就下决心一定要把她救出来。

    Chénxiāng zhǎngdà yǐhòu cái zhīdao zìjǐ de māma bèi yā zài shān xià jiù xià juéxīn yídìng yào bǎ tā jiù chūlai

    Only when Chenxiang grew up did he learn his mother was trapped under the mountain, and he resolved to rescue her.

    From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5

Stories using 出来

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).