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
- —左心縮小術reduction left ventriculoplasty; Batista procedure
- —烏勘左衛門crow; Mr Crow; tanned person; dark-skinned person; being penniless
- —左右非対称bilateral asymmetry; left-right asymmetry
- —常時左折可left turn permitted on red; left on red
- —春秋左氏伝Zuo zhuan (c. 4th century BC); The Zuo Tradition; The Commentary of Zuo
- —左右相称動物Bilateria (animals with bilateral symmetry); bilaterian
- —極左暴力集団ultra-leftist violent group; far-left extremist group
- —左右に分かれるto part left and right; to open out
- —言を左右にするto equivocate; to beat around the bush
- —ことほど左様にso ... that ...; to that extent; to that degree
- —左心補助循環装置left ventricular assist device; LVAD
- —左行the "sa" column of the Japanese syllabary table (sa, shi, su, se, so)
- —左変s-stem irregular verb conjugation ("su(ru)" is the only member)
- —左尊羅incense variety used in kōdō (orig. from India)
- —右左脳right-brain input, left-brain output (personality type in a popular Japanese test based on hand and arm crossing); right and left hemispheres (of the brain); both cerebral hemispheres
- —事程左様にso ... that ...; to that extent; to that degree
- —事ほど左様にso ... that ...; to that extent; to that degree
- —こと程左様にso ... that ...; to that extent; to that degree