And if so, how do they label headphones, contact lenses etc?

  • ylph@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Chinese is also not right - 正确的 (zhèngquè de) means “proper”

    Left and Right as the sides are 左 (zuǒ) and 右 (yòu) - you can also add 邊 (biān) to each which means “side” to be more explicit, but they are also used separately in many contexts where the left/right meaning is needed.

    The Chinese characters for 左 and 右 actually originated as pictograms of the left and right hand in the early forms of Chinese writing, but later forms both contain general “hand” component (𠂇) with components 工 and 口 added for differentiation