有 (yǒu) means To have (has - there is - there are). Below are 24 of the 1022 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
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From the graded readers
这次 有 人接了。
zhècì yǒurén jiē le / liǎo / liào.
This time somebody answered.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
台下 有 人笑了。
tái xià yǒurén xiào le / liǎo / liào.
Someone in the audience laughed.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
街上几乎没 有 人。
jiēshàng jīhū méiyǒu rén.
There was almost nobody about.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
我当时没 有 回答。
wǒ dāngshí méiyǒu huídá.
I didn't answer at the time.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
我们班 有 十二个学生。
wǒmen bān yǒu shí'èr gè xuésheng.
There are twelve students in our class.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
我 有 一只猫，它叫小白。
wǒ yǒu yī zhī māo, tā jiào xiǎo bái.
I have a cat called Xiaobai.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat
From the travel phrasebook
还 有 票吗？
Hái yǒu piào ma?
Are there any tickets left?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
From the grammar library
你家 有 几个人？
Nǐ jiā yǒu jǐ ge rén?
How many people are in your family?
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Question words stay in place
我 有 两个孩子。
Wǒ yǒu liǎng ge háizi.
I have two children.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 有 — have and there is
我 有 一个问题。
Wǒ yǒu yí ge wèntí.
I have a question.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Measure words — the top 25
有 appears in 1022 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 有
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 有
How is 有 used in a sentence?
This page shows 1022 sentences using 有 (yǒu, "To have (has - there is - there are)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 有 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 有 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 有 an HSK word?
Yes — 有 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 有?
The dictionary page for 有 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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