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出来

chū lái

HSK 1 · word 49 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

新月出来了。

xīn yuè chū lái le

The new moon came out.

Characters in 出来

出 to exit plus 来, which points the motion towards the speaker. 出去 is the identical verb pointing away — the 来/去 pair marks direction relative to where you are standing, not the action itself.

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