yönü

Yönü is a Turkish noun meaning direction, bearing, side, or aspect. It denotes spatial orientation and can also refer to figurative directions such as political orientation, stance, or the general trajectory of a plan or event.

In everyday Turkish it occurs in common expressions such as yön bulmak (to find one's bearings), yön göstermek (to indicate the direction), yönünü kaybetmek (to lose one's bearings), or yön değiştirmek (to change direction). The form yönü can function as the possessive form “its direction” or “the direction of something,” as in arabanın yönü (the car's direction) or evin yönü (the house's direction).

Yön is native Turkish and is widely used across Turkic languages with related forms. It is a general noun whose precise meaning depends on context; it commonly contrasts with yol (road) by focusing on orientation rather than the path itself.

Related terms include yönelim (orientation, tendency), which is used to describe trends or directions of development.