Example sentences
nǐ你yǒu有shén什me么?
What do you have?
zhè这ér儿yǒu有rén人。
There's someone here.
The story behind the character
有
A hand (又) holding a piece of meat (月, here meaning flesh). Hold meat in your hand and you've got something. That's 有. The logic is bone-simple: if you're holding meat, you have.