左
Meanings
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- 1.left
- 2.the Left (politics)
- 3.east
- 4.unorthodox
- 5.queer
- 6.wrong
- 7.differing
- 8.opposite
- 9.variant of 佐[zuǒ]
- 1.surname Zuo
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Wiktionary
- 1.left (direction)
- 2.below
- 3.east; areas to the east
- 4.port
- 5.inferior position
- 6.unorthodox; wrong
- 7.erroneously; mistakingly
- 8.different; divided; inconsistent
- 9.left-wing
- 10.levo-
- 11.out of tune; off-key
- 12.to exchange
- 13.devious, dishonest
- 14.wrong; incorrect
- 15.a surname
- 16.Original form of 佐 (zuǒ, “to assist”).
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Etymology
Originally written 𠂇 and 䶹 in the oracle bone script: Pictogram (象形) – a left hand. Compare 又 (“right hand”). Late bronze inscription forms show an added 工 (“work; to assist?”) component, making the current form a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsaːlʔ, *ʔsaːls) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): phonetic 𠂇 (“left hand”) + semantic 工 (“work”), representing the original form of 佐 (OC *ʔsaːls, “to assist”). Cognate with 佐 (OC *ʔsaːls, “to assist”) (< be on one's left side); mirror of the semantic relationship between 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, “right”) and 佑 (OC *ɢʷɯs, “to assist”) (Schuessler, 2007). Unrelated to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *b(w)aj (“left (hand)”) (STEDT). ; “(politics) left-wing”
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Components
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Example sentences
走左邊的道路。
Take the road on the left.
我的左眼皮在跳。
My left eyelid is twitching.
在第一個紅綠燈左轉。
Turn left at the first light.
我的房間在樓上的左邊。
My room is upstairs on the left.
阿拉伯语要从右往左读。
Arabic is read from right to left.
走過兩個街區，然後左轉。
Walk two blocks, and turn left.
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