徕 (lái) · to induce to come, to solicit (customers)

Meanings

1 to induce to come
2 to solicit (customers)

Characters

徕

lái

to induce to come; to solicit

Examples

HSK 6

店家办表演来招徕顾客。

Diànjiā bàn biǎoyǎn lái zhāolái gùkè.

The shop puts on shows to attract customers.

HSK 6

招徕就是吸引顾客来做生意。

Zhāolái jiùshì xīyǐn gùkè lái zuò shēngyi.

Soliciting customers means drawing them in to do business.

Tips

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.

Components

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.

Stroke Order

徕 lái

Related Words

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to canvass (for customers) / to solicit / to attract / to recruit

来看 láikàn #7,356

to come and see; to come to look at / in one's view; from the perspective of

来临 láilín HSK 6 #4,199

to arrive; to come; to approach / to descend upon; to be upon us

来到 láidào #926

to arrive; to come to

来往 láiwǎng HSK 6 #7,217

to come and go; to have dealings with / contact; interaction; traffic

来得 láide #7,852

to be competent at; to be able to do / to come (with a resulting complement) / more... (in comparisons, e.g., 来得快)

来访 láifǎng HSK 7-9 #7,880

to come to visit; to pay a visit / visiting (of a guest or delegation)

落 luò HSK 4 #1,572

to fall; to drop; to descend / to set (of the sun); to ebb (of a tide) / to decline; to sink; to lag behind / to settle; to come to rest / whereabouts; settlement