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Meaning of

Pinyin zuǒ
Radical
Strokes
5
Definition
left
Usage
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左 [zuǒ] 动 1. 辅佐,从旁帮助。后作“佐”。 (Assist; originally means to help from the side.) 引 1. 《说文》:左,手相左助也。俗字作“佐”。 (From "Shuowen": Left means to assist with the hand. The common character is "佐".) 2. 《易·象上传》:以左右民。 (From "I Ching": To assist and manage the people.) 2. 贬谪,从朝廷下放到地方为官。 (Banish from the court; to be assigned to a local position away from the central authority.) 3. 见外,把某人当外人看待。 (Regard someone as an outsider.) 名 1. 左手。 (Left hand.) 2. 方位名。与“右”相对。 (A direction name, opposite of "right".) 3. 地理上常以东为左。 (In geography, often the east is considered the left.) 4. 后多泛指旁边。 (Often refers to the side in a general sense.) 5. 在直书而左行的文字中,特指右后。 (In vertically written text, specifically refers to the right back location.) 6. 证据;证人。 (Evidence; witness.) 7. 御者,赶车的人。 (Driver; the person driving a vehicle.) 8. 姓。 (Surname.) 形 1. 指进步、革命的派别或思潮。 (Referring to left-leaning or progressive political factions or ideologies.) 2. 与众不同,异于常规。 (Different; odd.) 3. 错误,荒谬。 (Wrong; absurd.) 4. 部分或全部不同。 (Partially or completely different.) 5. 偏僻,离中心城市很远。 (Remote; far from the central city.) 6. 不正,偏邪。 (Biased; improper.) 副 1. 向左。 (Towards the left.)
zuǒ yòu fēn
Left and right
zuǒ yòu liǎng zuò
Two seats
zuǒ yòu mén
Left and right doors
wàn zuǒ yòu
Around ten thousand
Kā lǎ qìn Zuǒ yì Měng gǔ zú Zì zhì xiàn
Harqin Left Mongol autonomous county in Chaoyang 朝陽|朝阳, Liaoning
Zuǒ àn
Left Bank (in Paris)
zuǒ shǒu
left hand / left-hand side
zuǒ bian
left / the left side / to the left of
zuǒ bì
left arm
zuǒ tuǐ
left leg
zuǒ pài
(political) left / left wing / leftist
zuǒ jiǎo
left foot / left leg / left crus
zuǒ shǒu
left-hand side
zuǒ yǎn
left eye / oculus sinister
jí zuǒ
ultra-Left
zuǒ lù
Left
Zuǒ quán
Zuoquan county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi
zuǒ jìn
near by
Zuǒ Zōng táng
Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885), Chinese administrator and military leader
páng mén zuǒ dào
dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion / dissident group
zuǒ yòu
left and right / nearby / approximately / attendant / to control / to influence
zuǒ piě zi
left-handed
zuǒ cè
left side
zuǒ gù yòu pàn
glancing to left and right (idiom); to look all around
wáng gù zuǒ yòu ér yán tā
the king looked left and right and then talked of other things / to digress from the topic of discussion (idiom)
zuǒ zhī yòu chù
to be in straitened circumstances
zuǒ bǎng yòu bì
a capable assistant / right-hand man
zuǒ bǎng
Left hand
zuǒ xián
port (side of a ship)
zuǒ duǒ yòu shǎn
Dodge left and right
zuǒ yòu féng yuán
lit. to strike water right and left (idiom) / fig. to turn everything into gold / to have everything going one's way / to benefit from both sides
zuǒ lín yòu shè
neighbors / next-door neighbors / related work units / colleagues doing related work

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