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有名

yǒu míng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

有名 (yǒu míng) means "famous". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 有名 means

1. famous
2. well-known

The characters in 有名

• 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意
• 名míngname; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)

Words starting with 有名

• 有名无实yǒu míng wú shílit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name; nominal
• 有名亡实yǒu míng wáng shílit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name; nominal

Words containing 有名

• 赫赫有名hè hè yǒu míngillustrious; prominent; prestigious
• 师出有名shī chū yǒu mínglit. to have sufficient reason to send troops (idiom); to do something with good reason…
• 固有名词gù yǒu míng cíproper noun
• 专有名词zhuān yǒu míng cítechnical term; proper noun
• 顶港有名声，下港上出名dǐng gǎng yǒu míng shēng , xià gǎng shàng chū míng(Taiwan) (saying) famous far and wide (from Taiwanese Hokkien)

Where 有名 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Qualities, Adverbs & Degree Words (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yǒu míng correctly.
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