来 |
lái cháo | (of water) to rise / rising tide / (of women) to get one's period |
来 |
lái | to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来) / ever since (as in 自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来) |
潮 |
cháo | tide / damp; moist; humid / fashionable; trendy / (coll.) inferior; substandard |