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徕

lái

Character Traditional 徠

What 徕 means

1. used in {招徕|zhāo lái}

Words containing 徕

• 招徕zhāo láito canvass (for customers); to solicit; to recruit

Characters built on 来

These share the phonetic component 来 (lái), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 莱láiname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 睐làito glance; to look askance at
• 铼láirhenium (chemistry)
• 涞láibrook; ripple
• 赉làito bestow; to confer
• 崃láiname of a mountain in Sichuan

Characters that look like 徕

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 狭xiánarrow; narrow-minded
• 徐xúslowly; gently
• 狸lí(bound form) used in the names of small mammals
• 捅tǒngto poke; to jab; to give (sb) a nudge; to prod; to disclose; to reveal
• 倪ní(literary) small child; (literary) limit; bound; extremity; (literary) to differentiate
• 捱áivariant of 挨

Sounds the same

Read lái, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 来to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)…
• 莱name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 铼rhenium (chemistry)
• 涞brook; ripple
• 箂(bamboo)
• 郲name of a country in Spring and Autumn period in modern Shandong, destroyed by Qi 齐
• 崃name of a mountain in Sichuan
• 𡥧last
• 梾used in 梾木
• 騋mare
• 𱉵used in 鶆䴈
• 𱇭see 鲥鱼