有人

yoǔ rén · HSK 2

someone

👤 有 (have) + 人 (person) = 'have person' → someone is there

Compound decomposition: 有 means 'to have/exist' and 人 means 'person'. Together they literally read 'exist-person', which Chinese uses to say someone is present or anyone at all.

有 — hand 𠂇 + moon/meat 月
Originally depicted a hand holding a piece of meat (月 here is the 'meat' radical, not moon), expressing the idea of possessing something. Over time the meaning broadened from 'to hold/possess' to the general sense of 'to have' or 'there is/exists'.

人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.

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