Character Details
| friend | Ascii: 31995 | w161 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 友 | yǒu | yoh | 3 | 又 (hand) + 一 (horizontal) → friend | 友 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
 |
A good friend is always at your side, a right-hand man. ---- I teach at a Chinese High School, and I often see chummy male students grabbing each other's crotches in a joking manner. It's still weird to me, but apparently reaching to your side and grabbing your neighbor's crotch is a great way to express friendship. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - He is my friend. | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
| Strokes | |||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 30 - 又 | yòu | right hand | again | right hand shape | 又 友 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 又 (hand) + 一 (horizontal) → friend | 又 (semantic: hand) | — | pictographic; no phonetic | ||||||||