Character Details
| have not (to); don't have | Ascii: — | w799 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 没有 | méiyǒu | may-yo | 2+3 | 汽 (氵 water radical + 气 steam) + 水 (water radical) | 没有 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - 没有 (méiyǒu) can be shortened to 没 (méi) without altering its meaning | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I am not as clever as him | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; negation | 没 (氵 water radical + 殳 weapon) + 有 (hand + moon) | ||||||||||
| Not (没) have (有). | |||||||||||