5 strokes

left

Kunひだり
Onサ、シャ

Radicals

Common words

  • 左右さゆう
    left and right, right and left, (asserting) control, influence, domination, one's attendants, people accompanying one, (serving at someone's) side, equivocation
  • 左手ひだりて
    left hand, left-hand side, left-hand direction, (on) the left
  • 左側ひだりがわ
    left side, left-hand side
  • 左翼さよく
    left-wing (politics), left wing (of a bird, aircraft, formation, etc.), left flank, left field
  • 左利きひだりきき
    left-handedness, left-handed person, left-hander, fondness for alcohol, person who is fond of alcohol, drinker
  • 左遷させん
    demotion, relegation, reduction in rank, degradation, downward move
  • 左折させつ
    turning to the left, left turn
  • 向かって左むかってひだり
    on the left as one faces (it)
  • 左腕さわん
    left arm, left-handed (baseball pitcher)
  • 左派さは
    left wing
  • 左前ひだりまえ
    wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead), going badly (one's business, one's fortune, the economy), being in a bad financial situation, front left, front and left, before and left
  • 右往左往うおうさおう
    moving about in confusion, going every which way, going this way and that
  • 左記さき
    undermentioned (statement), the following, at left
  • 左岸さがん
    left bank (of a river)
  • 左辺さへん
    left side (of an equation, expression, etc.), LHS, left side (go, chess, othello board)
  • 極左きょくさ
    extreme left, ultraleft
  • 左舷さげん
    port (left side of vessel)
  • 左四つひだりよつ
    hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right
  • 左官さかん
    plasterer
  • 左党さとう
    drinker, person who is fond of alcohol, left-wing party