莱

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name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

艹 meaning “grass” + 来 sound ( lái )

Components 艹来

lambsquarters · Heisig RSH #2045

flower + 来 come

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
莱斯大学	Lái sī Dà xué	Rice University (Houston, Texas)
斯莱特林	Sī lái tè lín	Slytherin (Harry Potter)
莱山区	Lái shān Qū	Laishan, a district of Yantai City 煙台市\|烟台市[Yan1 tai2 Shi4], Shandong
阿德莱德	Ā dé lái dé	Adelaide, capital of South Australia
布莱克本	Bù lái kè běn	Blackburn
莱西市	Lái xī Shì	Laixi, a county-level city in Qingdao City 青島市\|青岛市[Qing1 dao3 Shi4], Shandong
阿得莱德	Ā dé lái dé	Adelaide, capital of South Australia
克莱尔	Kè lái ěr	Claire (name)
克莱尔蒙特	Kè lái ěr méng tè	(place name) Claremont or Clermont
莱斯特	Lái sī tè	Lester or Leicester (name); Leicester, English city in East Midlands
巴克莱银行	Bā kè lái Yín háng	Barclays Bank
卡尔文克莱因	Kǎ ěr wén Kè lái yīn	Calvin Klein CK (brand)
莱阳市	Lái yáng Shì	Laiyang, a county-level city in Yantai City 煙台市\|烟台市[Yan1 tai2 Shi4], Shandong
巴克莱	Bā kè lái	Barclay or Berkeley (name)
莱州市	Lái zhōu Shì	Laizhou, a county-level city in Yantai City 煙台市\|烟台市[Yan1 tai2 Shi4], Shandong
布莱尔	Bù lái ěr	Blair (name)
布莱克史密斯	Bù lái kè shǐ mì sī	Blacksmith (name)
劳斯莱斯	Láo sī Lái sī	Rolls-Royce
文莱达鲁萨兰国	Wén lái Dá lǔ sà lán guó	Brunei Darussalam
卡巴莱	kǎ bā lái	cabaret (loanword)

Characters sharing the sound component 来 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
来 sound part	lái	to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
赉	lài	to bestow, to confer; surname
崃	lái	a mountain in Sichuan province
涞	lái	ripple; brook; a river in Hebei province
睐	lài	to squint at; a sidelong glance
徕	lái	to entice, to solicit; to encourage customers to come
梾	lái	dogwood; Cornus macrophylla
铼	lái	rhenium