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Mythic Mandarin

没有 (méi yǒu): meaning and stroke order

没有 (méi yǒu) means haven't, hasn't, doesn't exist, to not have, to not be.

没有

Simplified
没有
Traditional
沒有
Pinyin
méi yǒu

Stroke order of 没有

没

  • méi (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
  • mò drowned; to end
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 沒

Stroke by stroke

有

  • yǒu to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 没有

  1. méi yǒu Traditional 沒有
    • haven't
    • hasn't
    • doesn't exist
    • to not have
    • to not be

Radicals of the characters

没
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 殳 on the right
有
Radical 月 (Kangxi radical 74) · 6 strokes · built from 𠂇 and 月

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

没有 in our stories

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  • “今天没有米饭。”

    jīntiān méiyǒu mǐfàn

    "There's no rice today."

    From the story At the restaurant HSK 1

  • 公司没有人。

    gōngsī méiyǒu rén

    There's nobody at the office.

    From the story Xiaoyue's day HSK 1

  • 包里没有他的书。

    bāo lǐ méiyǒu tā de shū

    His books are not in the bag.

    From the story Not my bag HSK 1

Where you learn it

没有 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 没有

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).