右 yòu — right; the right side
右
Level 1 · Common HSK 2 #217
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Basic definition
Detailed explanation
verb
- (会意。从口，从又(手)。口手并用帮助别人。本义:右助。见《说文》。这个意义后来写作“佑”)
- help e.g 右援 · 右序 · 右饷 · 右与
- respect e.g 右鬼 · 右贤 · 右文 · 右武
- bless and protect
- urge sb. to drink or wait on
noun
- right hand e.g 右口 · 右臂
- the right side e.g 右势下 · 右个 · 右文 · 右文说
- official or governmental mansion
- west
- guard stood by right side of war chariot
- 姓
adjective
- right
- super e.g 右戚 · 右姓 · 右客 · 右地 · 右列
Related words
- 左右 left and right; approximately; to control
- 右派 right wing; rightist
- 右翼 right wing; right-wing
- 右边 right side
- 右侧 the right side
- 右倾 right-leaning; right-deviationist
- 极右 extreme right; far right
- 反右 the Anti-Rightist Movement (of 1957)
- 左邻右舍 neighbors; close neighbors
- 座右铭 motto; maxim
- 左右为难 in a dilemma; caught between two stools
- 左顾右盼 to glance left and right; to look around
- 左思右想 to turn over in one's mind; to think long and hard
- 右面 the right side
- 左右逢源 to be able to draw on resources wherever one turns; (of skill/social skill) to r
- 左右开弓 to use both hands alternately; to shoot or do two things at once
- 左右手 left and right hands/fig. collaboration
- 右方 the right side; to the right
- 右首 the right side
- 左膀右臂 right-hand man; capable assistant