左
commonleft
Radical: 工 (work). Strokes: 5画. Elements: ノ一工. . Hangul: 좌 [jwa]. Nanori: そso.
Jōyō Kanji 1st Grade. JLPT N5.
Example compounds:
| サSA | 左折【させつsasetsu】turning to the left; left turn 右往左往【うおうさおうuōsaō】move about in confusion; go every which way; going right and left; this way and that 左方【さほうsahō】left side |
| ひだりhidari | 右左【みぎひだりmigihidari】right and left 左四つ【ひだりよつhidariyotsu】hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right 左利き【ひだりききhidarikiki】left-handedness; drinker |
Codepoints and classification codes:
Dictionary indices:
| 5de6 | – | Unicode |
| 26-24 | – | JIS X 0208 |
| 3-2-3 | – | SKIP |
| 0a5.20 | – | TKD |
| 4001.1 | – | Four Corner |
| 1472 | – | De Roo |
| 1455 | – | Classic Nelson |
| 1535 | – | The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson |
| 2974 | – | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern |
| 1887 | – | Kanji Learner's Dictionary by J. Halpern |
| 77 | – | Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig |
| 477 | – | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (Gakken) |
| 169 | – | Japanese Names by P.G. O'Neill |
| 87 | – | Essential Kanji by P.G. O'Neill |
| 8720 | – | Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 4 p. 345 |
| 22 | – | A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by K.G. Henshall |
| 75 | – | Kanji & Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky |
| 18 | – | Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese (H) by F. Sakade |
| 50 | – | Kanji Flashcards by M. Hodges and T. Okazaki |
| 21 | – | Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese: Third Edition 3rd edition by Henshall |
| 39 | – | Tuttle Kanji Cards by A. Kask |
| 374 | – | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power by D. Crowley |
| 36 | – | Kanji in Context by Nishiguchi and Kono |
| 3.12 | – | Japanese for Busy People by the AJLT |
| 552 | – | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 77 | – | Y. Maniette's French adaptation of Heisig |