🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

Pronunciation / Transliteration: duì

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Right/ɹaɪt/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这是正确的答案。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Morally good, justified, or acceptable; conforming to accepted standards of behavior or justice.

    "He tried to do the right thing by reporting the error."
  2. 2

    On, towards, or relating to the side of a human body that is to the east when facing north.

    "Turn right at the end of the corridor."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'riht', meaning 'straight, direct, correct, proper', stemming from Proto-Germanic '*rehtaz', which shares roots with Latin 'rectus' and Greek 'orektos'. Historically, the word evolved from physical straightness to encompass moral correctness, legal entitlement, and directional orientation.

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