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右
Meaning
- (bound form) right; right-hand side
- (bound form) (politics) right of center
- (bound form) (old) west
Example sentence
左看右看
Look to your left, look to your right.
The character 右
右 is a hand drawn over 口, and it is the right-hand side: 右边, 右手, 往右拐. Paired with its mirror it gives 左右, which after a number means roughly — 三十左右, about thirty.