Emaki · all 1,500 words

来る

くる

to come

Mnemonic

You are too cool く to go to anybody. You stay exactly where you are, and by August the whole crew has come to you: くる.

Worth knowing

Arriving. なる なる shares the gloss only because it turns up as to come to do something.

Built from

come
Originally a wheat plant. The crop that comes to you at harvest.

Words sharing these kanji

to be able to do, to be good at next year next month to come around, to come along future originally, essentially to bring over, to bring along occurrence, incident since one's future, in the future

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