右
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) right; right-hand side
- 2.(bound form) (politics) right of center
- 3.(bound form) (old) west
- 4.(literary) the right side as the side of precedence
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Wiktionary
- 1.right (direction)
- 2.above
- 3.starboard
- 4.west; areas to the west
- 5.right side as the side of precedence
- 6.right-wing
- 7.dextro-
- 8.a surname
- 9.Original form of 佑 (yòu, “to assist”).
- 10.Original form of 祐 (yòu, “to protect; to bless”).
- 11.to take somebody's side
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs): phonetic 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs) + semantic 口. Originally written as 又 as a phonetic loan in the oracle bone script; in bronze inscriptions, a meaningless 口 component was added as a distinguishing mark. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-(j/r)a (“right (hand)”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan གཡས (g.yas, “right”), Jingpho hkra (khʒa⁵⁵, “right”), Burmese ယာ (ya), ညာ (nya). 友 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, “be friendly; friend”) is the endoactive derivation of 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ) (Schuessler, 2007). 佑 (OC *ɢʷɯs, “to aid”), 祐 (OC *ɢʷɯs, “(of divinity) to assist; to bless”), 宥 (OC *ɢʷɯs, “to pardon; magnanimous”) are exoactive derivations of 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ) (ibid.). ; “(politics) right-wing”
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我在右邊。
I am on the right.
躺在你右邊。
Lie on your right side.
不要從右邊咬。
Don't bite on the right side.
走右邊的道路。
Take the road on the right.
第一條街右轉。
Take the first street to the right.
在下一個轉角右轉。
Turn right at the next corner.
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