左 (zuǒ)
Left; surname Zuo
How 左 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 𠂇 — left hand
- Traditional
- 左
- Simplified
- 左 (unchanged)
Components
- 𠂇 left hand
- 工 work
Common words using 左
- 左右 zuǒyòu
- left and right; approximately; attendant
- 左手 zuǒshǒu
- left hand; left-hand side
- 左邊 zuǒbian
- left; the left side; to the left of
- 向左 xiàngzuǒ
- facing left; leftwards; to the left
- 土默特左旗 tǔmòtèzuǒqí
- Tumed left banner, Mongolian Tümed züün khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia
- 崇左 chóngzuǒ
- Chongzuo prefecture level city in Guangxi
- 崇左市 chóngzuǒshì
- Chongzuo prefecture level city in Guangxi
- 左上 zuǒshàng
- upper left
- 左下 zuǒxià
- lower left
- 左不過 zuǒbuguò
- anyhow; in any event; just
- 左側 zuǒcè
- left side
- 左傳 zuǒzhuàn
- Zuozhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋, early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明
左 in a sentence
請在前面的路口向左轉。
Qǐng zài qiánmiàn de lùkǒu xiàng zuǒ zhuǎn.
“Please turn left at the intersection ahead.”
How common is 左?
左 is the 780th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 84.9% of all running text.
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