有 - Dong Chinese dictionary

yǒu

have

Depicts a hand (又) holding meat (肉). In Oracle script this character was written the same as the phonetically similar 又, but later the 肉 component was added to distinguish them.

Components

又 Sound Iconic component

yòu

(hand), again

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 又 than it was in ancient scripts.

肉 Iconic component

ròu

meat

Deceptively similar but unrelated to the character for moon (月).

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 肉 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

有

yǒu

have, own, possess; exist; to have; there is; there are; to exist; to be

Most common words with 有

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	有	to have
	没有	haven't
	还有	furthermore
	所有	all
	有关	to relate to

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

賄贿

Sound component in 9 characters (1 verified)

郁囿宥鮪鲔侑铕洧迶

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

肴

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ɢ]ʷəʔ	hjuwX	yǒu	have, exist

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 100.0000% of movies

13th most common character in movies

8th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	6
Unicode	U+6709
Shuowen	“有，不宜有也。《春秋傳》曰：‘日月有食之。’从月，又聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.550

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