右

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右 U+53F3, 右
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53F3
← 史
[U+53F2]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 叴 →
[U+53F4]
See also: 石 and 磊

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
5 strokes
Japanese stroke order
5 strokes

Han character[edit]

右 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 大口 (KR), four-corner 40600, composition ⿸𠂇口)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 173, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3250
  • Dae Jaweon: page 385, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 569, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+53F3

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 右

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 右
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
右-bronze.svg 右-bigseal.svg 右-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (又) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絠 *kɯːʔ
醢 *qʰɯːʔ
珛 *qʰʷɯs
栯 *ɢʷɯʔ, *qʷɯ
有 *ɢʷɯʔ
友 *ɢʷɯʔ
右 *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs
宥 *ɢʷɯs
囿 *ɢʷɯs, *ɡʷɯ
侑 *ɢʷɯs
酭 *ɢʷɯs
姷 *ɢʷɯs
又 *ɢʷɯs
佑 *ɢʷɯs
祐 *ɢʷɯs
賄 *qʰʷɯːʔ
蛕 *qʰʷɯːʔ, *ɡʷɯː
烠 *ɡʷɯː
倄 *ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
鮪 *ɢʷɯʔ
洧 *ɢʷɯʔ
痏 *ɢʷɯʔ
郁 *qʷɯ
戫 *qʷɯ
哊 *ɡʷɯ

Originally 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs, “right hand”) in the oracle bone script.

In bronze inscriptions, a 口 (“mouth; speech”) component was added, perhaps with the intention of indicating the use of 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs, “again”) is a phonetic loan. In other words, the current form is a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs): phonetic 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs) + semantic 口.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-(j/r)a (“right (hand)”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 右 右
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 云 (35) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 云久切 于救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨuX/ /ɦɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦiuX/ /ɦiuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiəuX/ /ɣiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuwX/ /ɦuwH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuX/ /ɣiuH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭəuX/ /ɣĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ə̯uX/ /i̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǒu yòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 右 右
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yòu yòu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjuwX › ‹ hjuwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷəʔ/ /*[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s/ (~ *m-qʷəʔ)
English right hand right hand

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 右 右
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15597 15604
Phonetic
component		 又 又
Rime
group		 之 之
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 有 宥
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷɯʔ/ /*ɢʷɯs/

Definitions[edit]

右

  1. right (direction)
    右手  ―  yòushǒu  ―  right hand
  2. west; areas to the west
  3. (historical) right side as the side of precedence
  4. (politics) right-wing
  5. A surname​.

Antonyms[edit]

  • 左 (zuǒ, “left”)

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

右

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Kanji in this term
右
みぎ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Noun[edit]

右 (hiragana みぎ, rōmaji migi)

  1. (direction) the right
    • 1999 July 22, “封ふう印いんされし者ものの右みぎ足あし [Right Leg of the Sealed One]”, in Vol.4 (in Japanese), Konami:
      封 (ふう)印 (いん)された右 (みぎ)足 (あし)。封 (ふう)印 (いん)を解 (と)くと、無 (む)限 (げん)の力 (ちから)を得 (え)られる。
      Fūinsareta migiashi. Fūin o toku to, mugen no chikara o erareru.
      A sealed right leg. Whosoever breaks the seal shall earn infinite power.
  2. above statement; foregoing
  3. (politics) the right wing; a rightist

Antonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

右 • (u)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

右 (hữu)

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