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Exact character matches appear first. For otherwise comparable matches, frequency in film and television subtitles helps determine order. Direct English-definition matches and prefix matches also affect ranking. Word length and the availability of usage notes do not improve rank.

Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

慢慢来màn màn lái

take your time / take it easy

用来yòng lái

to be used for

上来shàng lái

to come up / to approach / (verb complement indicating success)

赶来gǎn lái

to rush over

有史以来yǒu shǐ yǐ lái

since the beginning of history

说来话长shuō lái huà cháng

start explaining and it's a long story (idiom) / complicated and not easy to express succinctly

前来qián lái

to come (formal) / before / previously

生来shēng lái

from birth / by one's nature

传来chuán lái

(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive

近来jìn lái

recently / lately

归来guī lái

to return / to come back

从来不cóng lái bù

never

一般来说yī bān lái shuō

generally speaking

乱来luàn lái

to act recklessly / to mess around

一来yī lái

firstly, ...

外来wài lái

external / foreign / outside

到头来dào tóu lái

in the end / finally / as a result

总的来说zǒng de lái shuō

generally speaking / to sum up / in summary / in short

往来wǎng lái

dealings / contacts / to go back and forth

迎来yíng lái

to welcome (a visitor or newcomer) / (fig.) to usher in

反过来fǎn guo lái

conversely / in reverse order / in an opposite direction

来历lái lì

history / antecedents / origin

来头lái tóu

cause / reason / interest / influence

来龙去脉lái lóng qù mài

(lit.) the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom) / (fig.) the whole sequence of events / causes and effects

来复枪lái fù qiāng

rifle (loanword) / also written 來福槍|来福枪

来世lái shì

afterlife / next life

来劲lái jìn

(dialect) to be full of zeal / high-spirited / exhilarating / to stir sb up

来访者lái fǎng zhě

visitor / (psychological counseling) client

来意lái yì

one's purpose in coming

来之不易lái zhī bù yì

(idiom) hard to come by / not easily obtained

来客lái kè

guest

来生lái shēng

next life

来者不拒lái zhě bù jù

to refuse nobody (idiom) / all comers welcome

来年lái nián

next year / the coming year

来由lái yóu

reason / cause

来历不明lái lì bù míng

(idiom) of unknown origin / of dubious background

想来xiǎng lái

it may be assumed that

合得来hé de lái

to get along with well / compatible

胡来hú lái

to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules / to mess with sth / to make a hash of things / to cause trouble

自来水zì lái shuǐ

running water / tap water / (Internet slang) diehard fans who promote for free / volunteer promoters

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