左右 in English

Measure word

• 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use
• 岁 suì classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests) attested in use

Character breakdown

• 左 zuǒ left
• 右 yòu (bound form) right

Stroke order

How it used to be written

左

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 16 forms

右

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 17 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 世界上的人口60亿左右。

  There are about 6 billion people in the world.

• 他应该40岁左右吧。

  He must be about forty.

• 我们7点左右碰头。

  See you about 7.

• 我会在5点左右打电话给你。

  I'll call you around five o'clock.

• 我在五时左右起了床。

  I got up about five.

• 无论在甚么地方，过马路前也应该先看清楚左右。

  It's a good rule to look both ways before you cross the street anywhere.

• 过马路前先左右看一看。

  Look both ways before you cross the street.

• 这把剪刀左右撇子都适用。

  These scissors are suitable for left and right-handed people.

All example sentences with 左右