左

Descendants

 * さ

Glyph origin
Originally written in the oracle bone script:  – a left hand. Compare.

Late bronze inscription forms show an added component, making the current form a, representing the original form of.

Etymology
Cognate with (< be on one's left side); mirror of the semantic relationship between  and.

Unrelated to (STEDT).


 * “(politics) left-wing”
 * , in turn a.

Definitions

 * 1) left (direction)
 * 2) east; areas to the east
 * 3)  inferior position
 * 4) unorthodox; wrong
 * 5) erroneously; mistakingly
 * 6) different; divided; inconsistent
 * 7)  left-wing
 * 8)  levo-
 * 9)  out of tune; off-key
 * 10)  to exchange
 * 11)  devious, dishonest
 * 12)  wrong; incorrect
 * 1)  out of tune; off-key
 * 2)  to exchange
 * 3)  devious, dishonest
 * 4)  wrong; incorrect
 * 1)  wrong; incorrect

Usage notes
In socialist nations e.g. mainland China, is usually (not necessarily) put in quotation marks when referring to the leftism further to the correct party line.

Descendants
Others:

Etymology 1
/hidari/: *[pidari] → [ɸidari] → [çidari].

From. First attested in the  of 712. From.

Noun

 * 1)  left, the side of the left hand
 * 2)  a leftist
 * 1)  a leftist
 * 1)  a leftist
 * 1)  a leftist

Noun

 * 1) the left in vertical writing
 * 2) the following (one)

Prefix

 * 1) to the left; on the left side
 * 2)  "of the left", senior or superior to

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  left

Han character

 * 1) left (direction)