Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 148

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 右

MC description : 流開三去宥云

ZIHUI: 0671 1621

Beijing: iou 3

Jinan: iou 3

Xi'an: iou 3

Taiyuan: iou 3

Hankou: iou 3

Chengdu: iǝu 3

Yangzhou: iôɨ 3

Suzhou: iöy XH

Wenzhou: ɦiau 32

Changsha: iôu 32

Shuangfeng: iû 32

Nanchang: iu 32

Meixian: jiu 3

Guangzhou: jau 32

Xiamen: iu 32

Chaozhou: iu 22

Fuzhou: ieu 32

Shanghai: iɨ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: iou 3

Character: 右

Modern (Beijing) reading: yòu

Preclassic Old Chinese: wǝʔ

Classic Old Chinese: wǝ́

Western Han Chinese: wǝ́

Eastern Han Chinese: wǝ́

Early Postclassic Chinese: wíw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: wǝ́w

Late Postclassic Chinese: wǝ́w

Middle Chinese: ɦǝ́w

English meaning : be right (side), be to the right

Russian meaning[s]: 1) правая сторона; правый; направо; 2) вышеизложенный, ранее упомянутый (в тексте); 3) почитать, высоко ценить, придавать значение; содействовать, помогать; 4) сильный; 5) запад; западный; 6) второй

Shuowen gloss: 助也.從口又.

Comments: The concept of 'right' (as well as 'left'!) in Chinese is closely connected with 'help, assist': we thus have related or identical words 佑 wǝʔ-s (MC ɦǝ̀w, Mand. yòu) 'to aid, support' (this word has even transferred its 去聲 to 右 which otherwise should have been read MC ɦǝ́w, Mand. yǒu), 友 wǝʔ (MC ɦǝ́w, Mand. yǒu with regular 上聲) 'friend'. All these words have reflexes of *w- (not *wh-) in Min dialects: cf. 右,佑 > Xiamen iu⁶, Chaozhou iu⁴, Fuzhou eu⁶, Jianou iu⁶, 友 > Xiamen, Chaozhou, Fuzhou iu³.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 30

Four-angle index: 1108

Vietnamese reading: hũ'u

Shijing occurrences: 1.2, 38.3

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