Kanji1 / 5
左 kanji
left
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
サシャ
Kun readings
ひだり
Words with 左
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —右顧左眄inability to make up one's mind due to worrying about how others will think; hesitation; wavering; vacillation
- —左右相称symmetry
- —左顧右眄looking right and left or all about; vacillation
- —左の通りas following
- —極左団体far-left group
- —上下左右up and down, left and right; top and bottom, left and right
- —中道左派left-of-center faction (group)
- —左右一対left-and-right pair; symmetrical pair
- —左右対称bilateral symmetry
- —左方の楽style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
- —左方唐楽style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance
- —左記補足following supplements; supplementary information below
- —左近の桜cherry tree east of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace)
- —左折禁止No Left Turn
- —座左の銘favourite motto; pet saying
- —捨て左折(taking a) left turn to get out of a lane or road with heavy traffic as a shortcut
- —既成左翼the old left (school of thought)
- —左翼に走るto turn leftist
- —平気の平左quite unconcerned; nonchalant
- —左右突出部kern