由來

See also: 由来

Chinese

		follow; from; it is for...to follow; from; it is for...to; reason; cause; because of; due to; by; to; to leave it (to sb)	to come
trad. (由來)		由	來
simp. (由来)		由	来
alternative forms		繇來／繇来
anagram		來由／来由

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yóulái

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ ㄌㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴ loi⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iû-lâi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): iu⁵ lai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yóulái
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ ㄌㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yóulái
    • Wade–Giles: yu²-lai²
    • Yale: yóu-lái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: youlai
    • Palladius: юлай (julaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯³⁵ laɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁴ loi⁴
    • Yale: yàuh lòih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴ loi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴ loi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹ lɔːi̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iû-lâi
    • Tâi-lô: iû-lâi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iulaai
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iu²⁴⁻²² lai²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iu²⁴⁻²² lai²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu¹³⁻²² lai¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iu²⁴⁻¹¹ lai²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu²³⁻³³ lai²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: iu⁵ lai⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iû lâi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ lai⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: yuw loj

Rime
Character	由	來
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	以周切	洛哀切
Baxter	yuw	loj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨu/	/lʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/jiu/	/ləi/
Shao Rongfen	/iəu/	/lɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/juw/	/ləj/
Li Rong	/iu/	/lᴀi/
Wang Li	/jĭəu/	/lɒi/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ə̯u/	/lɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yóu	lái
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jau4	loi4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l[u]  mə.rˤək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lɯw  m·rɯːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	由	來
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yóu	lái
Middle Chinese	‹ yuw ›	‹ loj ›
Old Chinese	/*l[u]/	/*mə.rˁək/ (> *rˁə)
English	follow; from	come
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	由	來
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	15526	7598
Phonetic component	由	來
Rime group	幽	之
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	猷
Old Chinese	/*lɯw/	/*m·rɯːɡ/

Noun

由來

1. origin; source

   • 吾處懷期物，自有由來。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     吾处怀期物，自有由来。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Shen Yue, Book of Song, 492-493 CE

     Wú chǔ huái qī wù, zì yǒu yóulái. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. time since the beginning of the something (till now)

   • 臣弑其君，子弑其父，非一朝一夕之故，其由來者漸矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     臣弑其君，子弑其父，非一朝一夕之故，其由来者渐矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: I Ching, 11^th – 8^th century BCE

     Chén shì qí jūn, zǐ shì qí fù, fēi yī zhāo yī xī zhī gù, qí yóulái zhě jiàn yǐ. [Pinyin]

     The murder of a ruler by his minister, or of his father by a son, is not the result of the events of one morning or one evening.

Synonyms

• (origin):

• 來源／来源 (láiyuán)
• 出處／出处 (chūchù)
• 基本 (jīběn)
• 大本 (dàběn) (literary)
• 本源 (běnyuán)
• 根 (gēn)
• 根本 (gēnběn)
• 根源 (gēnyuán)
• 根頭／根头 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 泉源 (quányuán)
• 淵源／渊源 (yuānyuán)
• 源 (yuán) (literary, or in compounds)
• 源泉 (yuánquán) (figurative)
• 源頭／源头 (yuántóu) (figurative)
• 濫觴／滥觞 (lànshāng) (literary)
• 起源 (qǐyuán)