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唯有

wéi yǒu

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

唯有 (wéi yǒu) means "only". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 唯有 means

1. only

The characters in 唯有

• 唯wéionly; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义
• 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意

Example sentences

• 唯有我们有一个花园!
  Wéiyǒu wǒmen yǒu yī gè huāyuán!
  If only we had a garden!
• 唯有加很多糖才能让我喝得下粥。
  The only way I can eat porridge is with lots of sugar.

Sounds the same

Read wéi yǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 惟有variant of 唯有

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wéi yǒu correctly.
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