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带来 dàilái “to bring (about)” in Chinese

Traditional 帶來

What 带来 means

  1. to bring (about)
  2. to bring
  3. (fig.) to bring about
  4. to produce

How to say 带来

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale带dài4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale来lái2nd tone, rising

带来 in a sentence

  1. 把你的孩子带来。

    Bǎ nǐ de háizi dàilái.

    Bring your children along.

    Sentence #794230 from Tatoeba

  2. 你带来了吗？

    Nǐ dàilái le ma?

    Did you bring it?

    Sentence #9709532 from Tatoeba

  3. 我不想给你带来麻烦。

    Wǒ bù xiǎng gěi nǐ dàilái máfan.

    I don’t want to cause you any trouble.

    Sentence #346133 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 带来 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 带 (dài) with each of its parts in a different colour
带dàiband
  • 卅thirty · sà
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 巾napkin · jīn

Memory aidDrawn from a belt with cloth 巾 hanging from it: a belt, to carry.

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 带来

带 9 strokes · 来 7 strokes

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

Words related to 带来

Words with 带

带dài · band系领带jì lǐngdài · to tie a tie带领dàilǐng · to lead携带xiédài · to carry (on one’s person)温带wēndài · temperate zone磁带cídài · cassette tape

Words with 来

来lái · to come出来chūlái · to come out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看来kànlái · it seems

More words: Action & Change Verbs

选xuǎn · to choose办bàn · to handle查chá · to check做到zuòdào · to accomplish变成biànchéng · to turn into服务fúwù · to serve进入jìnrù · to enter生shēng · to be born

FAQs

带来 (dàilái) means “to bring (about)” or “to bring”. It is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list.
Say it dàilái: dài with a 4th 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, 带来 is written 帶來. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dailai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 带来 from the suggestions. Typing dailai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
带来 is not listed as a separate word in the official 2021 HSK 3.0 syllabus, but it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 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.