历来 lìlái HSK7 always Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 历 歷 lì past (bound form) past; previous; refers to each or every time/age in the past, as in 历代 lìdài or 历年 lìnián来 來 lái prepositionparticle since Used after a time duration to mean "for the past..." or "ever since"