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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.

不请自来bù qǐng zì lái

to turn up without being invited / unsolicited

二来èr lái

secondly, ...

人来疯rén lái fēng

to get hyped up in front of an audience / (of children) to play up in front of guests

什么风把你吹来的shén me fēng bǎ nǐ chuī lái de

What brings you here? (idiom)

仙客来xiān kè lái

cyclamen (loanword)

依我来看yī wǒ lái kàn

as I see it / in my opinion

停下来tíng xià lái

to stop

倾巢来犯qīng cháo lái fàn

to turn out in force ready to attack (idiom)

先来后到xiān lái hòu dào

(idiom) in order of arrival / first come, first served

两国相争，不斩来使liǎng guó xiāng zhēng , bù zhǎn lái shǐ

when two kingdoms are at war, they don't execute envoys (idiom)

兵来将挡，水来土掩bīng lái jiàng dǎng , shuǐ lái tǔ yǎn

counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom) / different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

兵来将敌，水来土堰bīng lái jiàng dí , shuǐ lái tǔ yàn

counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom) / different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

其来有自qí lái yǒu zì

there is a reason for it / (of sth) not incidental

冒出来mào chū lái

to emerge / to pop up / to spring forth / to appear from nowhere

出来混迟早要还的chū lái hùn chí zǎo yào huán de

if you live a life of crime, sooner or later you'll pay for it

划不来huá bu lái

not worth it

划得来huá de lái

worth it / it pays to

前不见古人，后不见来者qián bù jiàn gǔ rén , hòu bù jiàn lái zhě

unique / unprecedented (idiom)

前无古人，后无来者qián wú gǔ rén , hòu wú lái zhě

there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom) / never done before and unlikely to be matched in the future / peerless

卯起来mǎo qǐ lai

(coll.) to get enthusiastic / to put in all one's energy

即将来临jí jiāng lái lín

imminent

原来如此yuán lái rú cǐ

(idiom) so that's how it is / I see

又来了yòu lái le

Here we go again.

古来gǔ lái

since ancient times / it has ever been the case that

古往今来gǔ wǎng jīn lái

since ancient times / since times immemorial

吃不来chī bu lái

to be unaccustomed to certain food / to not be keen on certain food

否极泰来pǐ jí tài lái

extreme sorrow turns to joy (idiom)

呼之即来hū zhī jí lái

to come when called (idiom) / ready and compliant / always at sb's beck and call

呼之即来，挥之即去hū zhī jí lái , huī zhī jí qù

to come when called (idiom) / ready and compliant / always at sb's beck and call

呼来喝去hū lái hè qù

to call to come and shout to go (idiom) / to yell orders / always bossing people around

哭得死去活来kū de sǐ qù huó lái

to cry one's heart out

喘不过气来chuǎn bu guò qì lái

to be unable to breathe

严格来说yán gé lái shuō

strictly speaking

严格来讲yán gé lái jiǎng

strictly speaking

回过头来huí guò tóu lái

to turn one's head / to turn around / (fig.) to return (to a previous point) / to come back (to what one was saying before) / (fig.) to look back (in time) / to reflect on the past

在来米zài lái mǐ

(Tw) long-grained non-glutinous rice

在我看来zài wǒ kàn lái

in my opinion

外来娃wài lái wá

children born to parents from rural areas who have migrated to urban areas

外来投资wài lái tóu zī

foreign investment

外来物种wài lái wù zhǒng

an introduced species

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