左 zuǒ
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zuǒ
noun
left
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: As a direction, the opposite of right (Guoyu '左' n 1; Unihan '左') -
zuǒ
adjective
unorthodox; improper
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 不正当的 (Guoyu '左' adj 3; Unihan '左') -
zuǒ
noun
east
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 东方 (Guoyu '左' n 2; Unihan '左') -
zuǒ
verb
to bring
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 辅佐 (Guoyu '左' v 1) -
zuǒ
verb
to violate; to be contrary to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 违背 (Guoyu '左' v 1) -
zuǒ
proper noun
Zuo
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '左' n 3) -
zuǒ
verb
extreme
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 左派 'leftwing' (Guoyu '左' adj 2)
Contained in
- 左右长御(左右長御) left and right head attendants
- 左边儿(左邊兒) left side
- 左箭头(左箭頭) left-pointing arrow
- 左右开弓(左右開弓) to shoot from both sides; to display ambidexterity; to slap with one hand and then the other, in quick succession
- 左对齐(左對齊) to left justify (typography)
- 左提右挈 the left lifts, the right helps; mutual help
- 左右两难(左右兩難) dilemma; quandary; Scylla and Charybdis; between the devil and the deep blue sea
- 左近 near by
- 左右袒 to take sides with; to be partial to; to be biased; to favor one side
- 白左 naive, self-righteous Western liberals
- 左方 left side
- 邻左(鄰左) neighbor
- 左手 left hand ; left side
- 左宗棠鸡(左宗棠雞) General Tso's chicken, a deep-fried chicken dish
- 左派 left wing; leftist
- 左耳旁 left ear radical; name of variant of Kangxi radical 163
- 左弧竖(左弧豎) left vertical stroke
- 左撇子 left-handed
- 左右勾拳 left hook and right hook (boxing); the old one-two
- 男左女右 the left is for males, the right is for females (traditional saying)
- 左右点(左右點) left and right dots
- 左宗棠 Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885), Chinese administrator and military leader
- 左下 lower left
- 左口鱼(左口魚) flounder
- 左右共利 ambidextrous
- 左轮手枪(左輪手槍) revolver
- 左道性力派 Vāmācāra Śākta
- 左前卫(左前衛) left forward (soccer position)
- 不为左右袒(不為左右袒) to remain neutral in a quarrel
- 左道惑众(左道惑眾) to delude the masses with heretical doctrines
- 左丞 left chancellor
- 左边(左邊) left
- 左骖殪(左驂殪) the left-hand trace-horse is dead
Also contained in
左营 、 苏尼特左旗 、 新巴尔虎左旗 、 科尔沁左翼中旗 、 科尔沁左翼中 、 崇左 、 左贡县 、 左庶长 、 左云县 、 左将 、 左云 、 左倾机会主义 、 左徒 、 科尔沁左翼后 、 春秋左氏传 、 左氏春秋 、 左贡 、 左丘明
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷九十 志第六十六 兵二 Volume 90 Treatises 66: Military 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 126
- 卷七十九 志第二十九: 輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 100
- 卷五十五 志第八 天文八 Volume 55 Treatises 8: Astronomy 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 92
- 卷一百六十八 志第一百二十一 職官八 Volume 168 Treatises 121: Offical Posts 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 89
- 卷七十三 志第四十九 職官二 Volume 73 Treatises 49: Official Posts 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 86
- 卷一百十一 表第十二 七卿年表一 Volume 111 Tables 12: Annals of the Seven Ministers 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 73
- 卷七十二 志第四十八 職官一 Volume 72 Treatises 48: Official Posts 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 72
- 卷一百十二 表第十三 七卿年表二 Volume 112 Tables 13: Annals of the Seven Ministers 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 72
- 卷二百十三 表第四 宰輔四 Volume 213 Tables 4: Chancellors 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 70
- 卷六十一 表第一 宰相上 Volume 61 Tables 1: Chancellors 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 70
Collocations
- 左师 (左師) 使為左師以聽政 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 47
- 左司马 (左司馬) 為左司馬 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 8
- 左执 (左執) 左執簧 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧王‧君子陽陽 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wang - Jun zi Yang Yang — count: 7
- 左尹 (左尹) 楚左尹子重侵宋 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
- 左肩 (左肩) 解其左肩 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
- 合左 (合左) 合左師之後 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
- 左拒 (左拒) 鄭子元請為左拒 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 3
- 左毂 (左轂) 則升其乘車之左轂 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《雜記上》 Miscellaneous Records I — count: 3
- 左公子 (左公子) 屬壽于左公子 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 3
- 在左 (在左) 泉源在左 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧竹竿 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Zhu Gan — count: 3