徕 (lái): to induce to come

Meanings

店家办表演来招徕顾客。

Lái

The shop puts on shows to attract customers.

招徕就是吸引顾客来做生意。

Zhāo lái gùkè

Soliciting customers means drawing them in to do business.

usage

徕 almost always appears in 招徕, to attract or solicit customers. It is an old causative form of 来, literally to make someone come.

radical

彳 chì

step; to walk

彳 is the step radical, a left-side form meaning to walk. It signals motion, fitting the causative sense of making someone come over.

phonetic

来 lái

to come

来 supplies the sound lái, matching its own reading, and its meaning to come is also exactly the core idea, making this both phonetic and semantic.

徕 lái