右
yòu HSK1

right

右 yòu
right nounadjective
the right side; the direction or position to the right

你们更喜欢左还是右？

nǐ​men gèng xǐ​huan zuǒ hái​shi yòu?

Do you prefer left or right?

conservative
(bound form) politically conservative or reactionary
west
(bound form) (archaic) the west direction, based on the traditional orientation of facing south
superior
(literary) a higher position or rank, based on the ancient custom of regarding the right side as superior
to assist
(literary) to help or support; equivalent to 佑 yòu
surname
a Chinese surname
to side with
(literary) to favor or take sides with one party over another
to advocate
(literary) to uphold or value highly, such as a principle or philosophy

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Frequency
Character
Written text
783rd most common 235.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,018th most common 102.1 per million appears in 37% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
51.8 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
94.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+53F3

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)