verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to come (Cantonese, = 来)
  2. 2 used in transliteration

Examples

Nǐ lí bu lí?
Are you coming or not? (Cantonese: nei5 lai4 m4 lai4)
Qú jiān jiān lí dào.
He just arrived. (Cantonese sentence)
Guò lí dì xià.
Come over and take a look. (Cantonese sentence)

Tips

register
Pure Cantonese character — the written form of the verb 'to come' (lai4, in Mandarin). Appears constantly in HK signage, lyrics, and texts ( = 过来, = 进来). Rare outside Cantonese writing.
memory
Radical (mouth) + (lí, phonetic) — the phonetic component is why CC-CEDICT lists the Mandarin reading as lí. In actual Cantonese speech it's lai4, closer to .

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