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.
Oracle script
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷəʔ | hjuwX | yǒu | have, exist |
HSK level 1
Appears in 100.0000% of movies
13th most common character in movies
8th most common character in books
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+6709 |
Shuowen | “有,不宜有也。《春秋傳》曰:‘日月有食之。’从月,又聲。” |
季旭昇《說文新證》p.550