(yǒu) - friend (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
yǒuTraditional: 友
Translation
friend (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character showing two hands (又) reaching in the same direction, picturing two people who help one another, hence friend.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- two hands (又 + 又) reaching the same way
Stroke order
友
Examples
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She is my best friend.
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We are old friends.
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Friends are important.
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He is my good friend.
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We are good friends.
友 (yǒu) means friend and is the bound second half of 朋友 (péngyǒu), the everyday word for friend.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 友.
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