友 (jau5 | you3) : friend; friendship

Remove Adverts and gain lots of extra features
What is this page showing me?

友

jau5

you3

[1] [n] friend; companion; friendly; friendship [2] fraternity; fraternal love [3] [v] befriend

Stroke count: 4

Level: 1

Radical: 又 (#29)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

友

Don't confuse with:
反

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

Output this character as a high resolution image

小朋友 siu2 pang4 jau5 xiao3 peng2 you3 = children

朋友 pang4 jau5 peng2 you5 = friend

女朋友 neoi5 pang4 jau5 nv3 peng2 you3 = girlfriend

男朋友 naam4 pang4 jau5 nan2 peng2 you5 = boyfriend

老友 lou5 jau5 lao3 you3 = old friend, good friend

好友 hou2 jau5 hao3 you3 = a sidekick; a good friend

做朋友 zou6 pang4 jau5 = to make friends

校友 haau6 jau5 = a schoolmate; an old boy; alumni 國

信友 seon3 jau5 xin4 you3 = a penpal

好朋友 hou2 pang4 jau5 hao3 peng2 you5 = a good friend
See all 86 compounds

Showing 10 of 34 examples containing 友

我聽日同朋友出街呀。粵
I'm going out with my friends tomorrow.

你有冇男朋友呀? 粵
Do you have a boyfriend?

上星期日我同啲朋友一齊食晚飯。粵
Last Sunday, I had dinner with my friends together.

小明同小芳係好朋友。粵
Siu Ming and Siu Fong are good friends.

我介紹我男朋友畀你識粵
Let me introduce my boyfriend.
[lit. I introduce me boyfriend give you know.]

你見過佢個女朋友未呀？粵
Have you seen his girlfriend before?

嘩！你個男朋友咁鬼樣衰㗎! 粵
Oh my god! Your boyfriend is so ugly!

王先生是我爸爸的好朋友。國
Mr. Wong is a good friend of my father.

有個波蘭朋友嚟咗探我。粵
A Polish friend has come to visit me.

佢喺個帳篷前面等緊朋友粵
He's in front of a tent, waiting for his friend.
[Lit. He at [counter] camping-tent front-face waiting friend]

Show all 34 examples

Legend
國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/453/]友[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/453/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">友</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 友
Unicode code for this character: U+53CB (off-site link)

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the character in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese Jyutping romanisation (pronunciation) Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu^4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
a detailed description of all the meanings
the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)


Characters \| Words \| Sentences \| Chinese Translation \| Chinese Tests \| Forums \| Search Customise CantoDict \| My Vocab Lists \| Useful Reports and Stats \| CantoDict Forum