Kanji1 / 5
左 kanji
left
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
サシャ
Kun readings
ひだり
Words with 左
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3左右Popularleft and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; domination; one's attendants; people accompanying one; (serving at someone's) side; equivocation
- N1左程(not) so; (not) particularly; (not) very; (not) that much
- N1左様ならfarewell; adieu; goodbye; so long
- —左記Popularundermentioned (statement); the following; at left
- —左折Popularturning to the left; left turn
- —左遷Populardemotion; relegation; reduction in rank; degradation; downward move
- —左派Popularleft wing
- —左翼Popularleft wing; left wing (of a bird or aircraft); left wing (of an army, building, etc.); left flank; left field; left fielder; left wing (in soccer, rugby, etc.)
- —右往左往Popularmoving about in confusion; going every which way; going this way and that
- —左left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); the following
- —左官plasterer
- —左岸left bank (of a river)
- —左傾leaning to the left; leaning to the (political) left; leftist tendency; becoming left-wing
- —左舷port (left side of vessel)
- —左党drinker; person who is fond of alcohol; left-wing party
- —左脳left brain
- —最左left-most
- —証左evidence; proof; witness
- —左辺left side (of an equation, expression, etc.); LHS; left side (go, chess, othello board)
- —極左far left (in politics); extreme left; ultraleft; radical left