Pinyin "lai2"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "lai2" is split up into two parts: "l" and "ai2". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "l"

L is for Sir Lancelot.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "ai2"

In the airplane's kitchen.

Characters pronounced lai2

来
來
lái = l + ai2
to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next
來 = 从 + 木 : 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).
来 = 丷 + 未 : 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).
莱
萊
lái = l + ai2
name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album
莱 = 艹 + 来 : 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.
涞
淶
lái = l + ai2
brook / ripple
铼
錸
lái = l + ai2
rhenium (chemistry)
崃
崍
lái = l + ai2
name of a mountain in Sichuan
徕
徠
lái = l + ai2
see 招徠|招徕[zhao1 lai2]
梾
棶
lái = l + ai2
used in 棶木|梾木[lai2 mu4]
孻
lái = l + ai2
last
箂
lái = l + ai2
(bamboo)
郲
lái = l + ai2
name of a country in Spring and Autumn period in modern Shandong, destroyed by Qi 齊|齐
騋
lái = l + ai2
mare
鯠
lái = l + ai2
to confer / to bestow on an inferior / to reward