Zi:又

又 [yòu] again; both ... and ...; (radical 29, 又​部); (​姓); (​古) ​右: ​右​手; ​宥; ​祐: ​福 [yǒu] ​有

One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):

►¹yòu ​又 {A} adv. again; moreover ‖ ∼ guòle yī̠ tiān ∼过了一天 another day passed ‖ ∼ shì tā. ∼是他。 It's him again. (disapprovingly) ◆conj. ①and; in addition ‖ sān ∼ wǔ fēnzhī sì 三∼五分之四 three and four-fifths ②but; on the other hand ‖ Wǒ xiạ̌ng mǎi, ∼ pà tài guì. 我想买, ∼怕太贵。 I thought of buying it, but was afraid that it was too expensive. ◆cons. ∼ A ∼ B both A and B ‖ ∼ piányi ∼ hǎo ∼便宜∼好 cheap as well as good

The character 又 yòu ‘(strong) right hand’ in the Seal is an abbreviation of the pictograph ​手 shǒu ‘hand’, with 3 fingers instead of 5, and with the forearm at the right (drawn from the perspective of looking at one's one right hand); it is ​𠂇(​左) ‘left (hand/side)’ reversed.
    Note: Today the old meaning of 又 yòu ‘right (hand/side)’ is written ​右(​𠮢) yòu, and 又 is used mainly for ‘again; and’ (又 no longer means ‘right hand’, except as a component); the old meaning of ​右(​𠮢) yòu ‘help’ is now written ​佑.
    Compare: ​友(​㕛) yǒu ‘friends’; ​有(​𪠥) yǒu ‘have’; ​求 qiú ‘seek’; ​廾(​𠬞) gǒng ‘upraised/respectful hands’.
    Compare: ​屮 chè ‘sprout’, ​艸 cǎo ‘grass/herb’.
►references: Guǎngyùn:434.20; Wieger:43b; Karlgren:AD249,GSR995a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.390.1; Mathews:7539; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:164.43; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:002.0.02; Wáng(1993):17; EDOC:1
►components: ​​㇇​㇏
►Cantonese: yauh-
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