左
左 in English
- left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐[zuo3]
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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下一个街角左转。
Turn left at the next corner.
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世界上的人口60亿左右。
There are about 6 billion people in the world.
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他伤害了他的左手。
He hurt his left hand.
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他应该40岁左右吧。
He must be about forty.
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他的母亲坐在他的左边。
On his left sat his mother.
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他自己撞坏了左臂。
He broke his left arm.
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向左转。
Turn to the left.
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在左边有一条秘密通道。
There's a secret path on the left.