IDENTITY
友yǒufriend
HSK 1Top 340
CORE MEANING
friend
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.friendHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 又again radical (yòu)
- strokes
- 4
- Structure
- top-left surround compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿸𠂇又
- top-left element
- hand; two hands meeting
USAGE
Common words
朋友péngyoufriend
友好yǒuhǎofriendly
友谊yǒuyìfriendship
Graded examples
我们成了好朋友。Wǒmen chéng le hǎo péngyou.HSK1
We became good friends.
RELATIONS
LEARNING
Memory aid
Two hands (又) clasped together — friendship.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #340
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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