来, originally a wheat plant, serves as phonetic component to form characters.
In modern Chinese 来 means:
1.to be at; to come to
2.to take place
3.future; coming; the next
4.around; about (a given figure)
Characters formed by the phonetic component来
Traditional: 萊 淶 徠 崍 Simplified: 莱 涞 徕 崃 the same pronunciation lái
Traditional: 睞 賚 Simplified: 睐 赉 the same pronunciation lài