有

CHARACTER · SOURCE RECORD

有 · yǒu

have, own, possess; exist

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

have, own, possess; exist

Mandarin: yǒu
Cantonese: jau5

Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.

Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese

Readings recorded for 有 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.

Japanese 日本語

Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.

On’yomi · katakana

ユウウ

Kun’yomi · hiragana

あるたもつまた

Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.

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Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property

ユウウあるたもつまた

Korean 한국어

Hanja readings · Hangul

유

Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.

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Reading sources explained

유: KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)

Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kHangul ↗ · provisional property

유:0E

Vietnamese Tiếng Việt

Character readings · Quốc ngữ

hữu

Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.

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Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kVietnamese ↗ · provisional property

hữu

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode: U+6709
Radical: 月 · 74
Strokes: 6 · Unihan
Residual: 2

Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.

Stroke order

6 strokes

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Graphical structure

⿸𠂇⺝(GHJKPV[S])

⿸𠂇月([M]T)

How to read these symbols

⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.

BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.

𠂇⺝

Words & connections

Words using 有

伴有bàn yǒuto be accompanied by 保有bǎo yǒuto keep; to retain 先有xiān yǒuprior; preexisting 公有gōng yǒupublicly owned; communal; held in common 共有gòng yǒuin total there are ...; to own jointly 具有jù yǒuto have; to possess 只有zhǐ yǒuonly have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才 cái) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈 zhǐ yǒu tōng guò zhì liáo cái néng quán yù "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 zhǐ yǒu nán xìng cái yǒu cǐ xū yào "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服 zhǐ yǒu qū fú "the only thing you can do is give in")大有dà yǒuthere is a great deal of ... (typically followed by a bisyllabic word, as in 大有希望 dà yǒu xī wàng); (literary) bumper harvest; abundance Search current dictionary records ↗

Character connections

郁肴贿侑囿洧宥鲔

8 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.

Component roles · attributed

又 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 又聲
Line 4152 · ⿸又肉 · 又聲 · source reference 2380010

Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗

Follow this component

侑 hjuwH · 囿 hjuwH / hjuwk · 宥 hjuwH · 洧 hwijX

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Sentence context · 4 matches

Mandarin

我没有任何借口。

I don't have an excuse.

Source, contributors & licenses

Mandarin: Tatoeba #395290 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #395289 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM

Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.

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Cantonese

你有冇打火機呀？

Do you have a lighter?

Source, contributors & licenses

Cantonese: Tatoeba #364850 · Original contributor: nickyeow · Text editors: nickyeow · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
English: Tatoeba #29830 · Original contributor: ichivivi20 · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM

Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.

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Written-form matches; sense and pronunciation are not automatically aligned. Corpus & selection ↗

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese: hjuwX · 云久反切 · #1927

Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.

Source row & reading categories

CSV line 11993 · hjuwX = 流開三上尤云

Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗

Sources & reference

Evidence & next depth

Source editions & exact scope ↗

Retained Unihan properties

kMandarin: yǒu
kCantonese: jau5
kDefinition: have, own, possess; exist
kTotalStrokes: 6
kRSUnicode: 74.2
kGradeLevel: 1
kTGH: 2013:390

Readings across dictionaries

Hanyu Da Zidian: yǒu,yòu,wěi 32041.050
Xiandai Hanyu · 1983: yǒu 1400.110 · yòu 1405.030
Tongyong Guifan · 2013: yǒu 444.080
Reading counts · XDHYPLCD: yǒu(17798)
Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD: yǒu粵jau5 yòu粵jau6

Small numbers locate dictionary entries; 粵 introduces Cantonese. Includes rare or historical readings. Source notation ↗

Reference desk

Fanqie spellings: 云久
Kangxi positions: 0504.200
Guangyun positions: 321.07
GSR references: 0995o
Cangjie: KB
Four-corner: 4022.7

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Sentences in context

Explore 4 examples using 有 ↗

Exact source-spelling matches. Open the reader for dictionary lookups, construction notes and related examples. Occurrence does not establish a particular dictionary sense.

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In Classical texts

4,037 written occurrences

This exact graph occurs in 2,583 imported passages. Spelling evidence does not establish the same meaning in each context.

子曰：「學而時習之，不亦說乎？有朋自遠方來，不亦樂乎？人不知而不慍，不亦君子乎？」 ↗

有子曰：「其為人也孝弟，而好犯上者，鮮矣；不好犯上，而好作亂者，未之有也。 ↗

子曰：「弟子入則孝，出則悌，謹而信，汎愛眾，而親人。行有餘力，則以學文。」 ↗

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Structure & connections

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677dictionary records using 有11forms using this shape6attributed sound links

⿸ Upper-left enclosure

𠂇

⺝

Shape description
𠂇 wraps around ⺝ from the upper left · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam, SAT (as a variant)
Source notation ^⿸𠂇⺝$(GHJKPV[S])
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿸𠂇⺝$(GHJKPV[S])

^⿸𠂇月$([M]T)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.