HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Places

出来 chūlái “to come out” in Chinese

Traditional 出來

What 出来 means

  1. to come out
  2. to appear
  3. to arise

How to say 出来

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale出chū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale来lái2nd tone, rising

出来 in a sentence

  1. 我看见他从旅馆出来。

    Wǒ kànjiàn tā cóng lǚguǎn chūlái.

    I saw him coming out of the hotel.

    Sentence #2363166 from Tatoeba

  2. 月亮已经出来了。

    Yuèliang yǐjīng chūlái le.

    The moon is already out.

    Sentence #836157 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 把那两本书拿出来！

    Bǎ nà liǎng běn shū ná chūlái!

    Take out those two books!

    Sentence #3537947 from Tatoeba

How 出来 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 出 (chū) with each of its parts in a different colour
出chūto go out; to come out
  • 屮sprout · chè
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidA foot stepping up out of an opening 凵: to go out.

The character 来 (lái) with each of its parts in a different colour
来láito come
  • 未part of the character
  • 丷eight form of 八 · bā

Memory aidDrawn from a stalk of wheat. It was borrowed early on for “to come”.

How to write 出来

出 5 strokes · 来 7 strokes

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出来 (chūlái) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 出来 (chūlái). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 出来

Words with 出

出租车chūzūchē · taxi出chū · to go out出国chūguó · to go abroad出门chūmén · to go out出去chūqù · to go out出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital出生chūshēng · to be born出现chūxiàn · to appear演出yǎnchū · to act (in a play)出差chūchāi · to go on an official or business trip

Words with 来

来lái · to come过来guòlái · to come over回来huílai · to return进来jìnlái · to come in上来shànglái · to come up下来xiàlai · to come down后来hòulái · afterwards起来qǐlai · beginning or continuing an action带来dàilái · to bring (about)看来kànlái · it seems

More words: Places & Getting Around

这边zhèbiān · this side这里zhèlǐ · here车站chēzhàn · rail station出国chūguó · to go abroad出门chūmén · to go out出去chūqù · to go out打车dǎchē · to take a taxi (in town)公交车gōngjiāochē · public transport vehicle

FAQs

出来 (chūlái) means “to come out” or “to appear”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it chūlái: chū with a 1st tone, then lái with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 出来 is written 出來. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chulai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 出来 from the suggestions. Typing chulai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
出来 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.