
The Chinese characters 有 meaning is have.
Early forms portrayed a hand grasping a piece of meat, signifying to possess or to have. Because of the resemblance between meat and moon (月), man soon lost sight of meat and reached for the moon, promising it to anyone he wishes to possess. Today, with hand on moon (月), he classified 有 under “moon”.

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