CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

自有

zìyǒu

(I, they etc) of course have (a plan, a way etc)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

(I, they etc) of course have (a plan, a way etc)

one's own (apartment, brand etc)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 自有 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 自有 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

此处不留人，自有留人处。cǐ chù bù liú rén， zì yǒu liú rén chù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

书中自有黄金屋，拿完黄金不读书。shū zhōng zì yǒu huáng jīn wū， ná wán huáng jīn bù dú shū。

No published English translation for this sentence.

「汤姆配那个女人真的太可惜了。你知道她是什麽人吗？是在超市收银台工作的人。」——「坠入爱河，自有其缘由吧。」「tāng mǔ pèi nà ge nǚ rén zhēn de tài kě xī le。 nǐ zhī dào tā shì shén mó rén ma？ shì zài chāo shì shōu yín tái gōng zuò de rén。」——「zhuì rù ài hé， zì yǒu qí yuán yóu ba。」

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 自有.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 自有.

Directly before

书中自有1

Directly after

自有黄金屋1
自有其1
自有留人1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 自有

What does 自有 mean in Chinese?

自有 (zìyǒu) means (I, they etc) of course have (a plan, a way etc).

How do you pronounce 自有?

自有 is pronounced zìyǒu.

Is 自有 an HSK word?

自有 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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