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Pinyin | yǒu (third tone) |
| English | have; possess | |
| Sounds more like 'yow' than 'you' | ||
Believed to be derived from the pictogram of a hand grasping a piece of meat (rou). As the marks for 'meat' and 'moon' are somewhat similar over the years the character has changed to that of a hand grasping the moon.
| wǒ | mén | yǒu | shí | běn | shū | |
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| I | [plural] | have | ten | [of] | books | = we have ten books |