to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next

= + : Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Sir Lancelot (l) is visiting the mailwoman (來) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2). As a gift, he brought a Christmas tree (木) decorated with rubber chicken (从).

= + : Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Lancelot (l) is super happy that his inflatable crocodile (丷) and live size Ai Weiwei (未) puppet finally arrived (来). The mailwoman (来) delivered them straight to the kitchen of the airplane (ai2).

來 character breakdown

variant of 從|从[cong2]
surname Cong
from / through / via / to follow / to obey / to engage in (an activity) / never (in negative sentence) / (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer / assistant / auxiliary / subordinate / related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor

= : Mnemonic symbol: 从 looks like the legs of a rubber chicken. Two Neanderthal Men (人) are playing a game with Kitty Cat (cu) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). They stand in a line and let Kitty Cat pass through (从) the tunnel formed by their legs by teasing her with a rubber chicken (从).
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree.

Malte Monkey (mu) is setting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He decorates the tree with eight-balls (八) and puts a holy cross (十) at the top of the tree.

Characters with 來 as component

variant of 敕[chi4]

= + : Charlie Chaplin received the imperial order to create sawdust out of a bundle of firewood using a sledgehammer inside the space station's bathroom.
name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album

= + : The mailwoman (来) delivered a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) to Lancelot (l) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2), but now a fat hen (莱) is sleeping on it. Lancelot will have to fight the fat hen if he wants to claim the sheet of artificial lawn.
to bestow / to confer
to glance / to look askance at
brook / ripple
rhenium (chemistry)
name of a mountain in Sichuan
see 招徠|招徕[zhao1 lai2]
used in 棶木|梾木[lai2 mu4]
(modal particle similar to 呢[ne5] or 啦[la1])
ancient place name (a Han dynasty town in Shaanxi) / variant of 邰[Tai2]
(bamboo)
name of a country in Spring and Autumn period in modern Shandong, destroyed by Qi 齊|齐
mare
to confer / to bestow on an inferior / to reward

Words with 來

to come from (a place) / From: (in email header)
auxiliary showing sth happened in the past
to approach / to come closer
to come and see / to see a topic from a certain point of view
to refuse nobody (idiom) / all comers welcome
reason / cause
to come to China
to invade one's territory
Laii township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom). / Be careful not to trust foreigners. / Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!
Laiyi township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical) / to respond in kind
rifling (helical grooves inside the barrel of a gun)
rifle (loanword) / also written 來復槍|来复枪
to visit Taiwan (esp. from PRC)
to become spirited
(polite) your letter
to get tough / to use force

Sentences with 來

來 currently does not appear in any sentence.