(yǒu) - to have, there is/are in Mandarin
yǒuTraditional: 有
Translation
to have, there is/are
Word origin
有 (yǒu) means 'to have'. The character is an associative compound of 又 (yòu, 'a hand') above 月 (a form of 肉, 'meat'), depicting a hand holding a piece of meat, hence 'to possess'.
- Origin
- associative compound
- Root
- 又 (yòu, 'hand') + 月 (from 肉 ròu, 'meat')
Stroke order
有
Examples
。
I have a question.
。
There is a book on the table.
?
Do you have time?
口。
There are three people in my family.
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There is an important meeting tomorrow.
有 (yǒu) means to have or there is/are, and is negated only with 没 (méi).
Where this fits
Appears in 19 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 有.
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