有

to have; there is

No. 7 most used · 1.2% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 81.

How it's built

• ナhand
• 月moon, meat

A way to remember it

A hand (ナ) holding meat (月): now you have it.

Words

• 没有

  méi yǒu

  haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist
• 还有

  hái yǒu

  there still remain(s); there is (or are) still; in addition
• 所有

  suǒ yǒu

  all; to have; to possess; to own
• 有人

  yǒu rén

  someone; people; anyone
• 只有

  zhǐ yǒu

  only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要 "only men would have such a requirement")
• 有点

  yǒu diǎn

  a little

Sentences

• 一共有十多个学生。

  yí gòng yǒu shí duō gè xué sheng

  There are about ten to twenty students in total.
• 他今天有点不开心。

  tā jīn tiān yǒu diǎn bù kāi xīn

  He is a little bit unhappy today.
• 他在日本也很有名。

  tā zài rì běn yě hěn yǒu míng

  He is also very famous in Japan.
• 他对自己很有自信。

  tā duì zì jǐ hěn yǒu zì xìn

  He has great confidence in himself.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.