Mnemonic symbol: confetti.
In an act of revolution, with a pair of scissors (𠂇) Maud Younger (y) is cutting a paper moon (月) into tiny pieces in the outhouse’s living room (ou3). There is (有) only confetti (有) left over.
有 is one of the characters where it is extremely hard to find a good mnemonic symbol: "to have" is an abstract concept without any object associated with it. But fortunately, "to have" is such an abstract concept that a mnemonic is not needed to associate the character's pronunciation "you3" with the meaning "to have".
有 is serving as a component for many important characters. In order to make learning these other characters easier, we assign an arbitrary mnemonic symbol to 有, derived solely from its components. 有 looks like a pair of scissors cutting into the moon, so we imagine the moon being cut into thousands of tiny pieces of confetti. This way, whenever 有 is used as a component of another character, we can use the mnemonic symbol "confetti" to remind us that we need to include 有 when writing any of these characters.
Matthias, almost 3 years ago
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