HSK 3 · Time Adverbs

从来

cóng lái

always; ever

Stroke order of 从来

2 characters, 11 strokes in total. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

从 · 4 strokes 来 · 7 strokes

Memory trick

Following 从 two people, with wheat 来 always coming: it has come this way all along.

Parts: 从 from + 来 come

The characters in 从来

从 cóng — from (4 strokes)
来 lái — to come (7 strokes)

Example sentence

我从来不喝咖啡。

I have never drunk coffee.

Words with 从

从from 从小since childhood 从事to be engaged in 从前before; in the past 自从since

Words with 来

起来to get up; to rise 来to come 来到to arrive; to come to 出来to come out 进来to come in 回来to come back 来自to come from 后来afterwards; later 原来originally; so it turns out 接下来next; following 越来越more and more 带来to bring 过来to come over 上来to come up 下来to come down 传来to come through (of sound or news)以来since 本来originally

More words: Time Adverbs

久long (time)曾经once; formerly 早已long ago; long since 已already 至今until now; so far 以来since 自从since 直到until 始终from start to finish; all along 本来originally 提前in advance; to move up 及时timely; promptly 立刻immediately 连忙promptly; hastily 赶紧hurriedly; quickly 赶快quickly; at once

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