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).

来 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
"eight" component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 八[ba1]

Mnemonic symbol: a crocodile with mean eyes. Beelzebub (b) is fighting with eight crocodiles (丷) in front of the ashram (a1).
one of the characters used in kwukyel, an ancient Korean writing system
not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210°

= + : Shortly after finishing a new installation in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, Ai Weiwei is imprisoned by Willy Walrus, because—out of all places—Ai Weiwei put his new installation right into Willy Walrus's toilet. Ai Weiwei's installation is a Christmas tree with a tiny, slightly tilted flute on top. Ai Weiwei would really, really like to correct the tilted flute, but so far, Willy Walrus has not yet let him out.
surname Mi
rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sack of rice.

Marilyn Monroe and the mean crocodile celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree inside of the space station. Coincidentally they got each other the same present: each of them is giving the other one a sack of rice.

Characters with 来 as component

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]

Words with 来

since (a previous event)
to act recklessly / to mess around
generally speaking / in general
awkward / embarrassed / cannot be accomplished
gradually / little by little / in the course of time
to be put on the spot / to find oneself in an awkward situation
incoming letter / letter from afar / same as 來信|来信[lai2 xin4]
to turn up without being invited / unsolicited
in the past always / for a long time now / until now
to get hyped up in front of an audience / (of children) to play up in front of guests
(coll.) (of women) to get one's period
all the way / all along / since the start

Sentences with 来

dà
wáng
huí
lái
le