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left and right / nearby / approximately / attendant / to control / to influence
HSK 3
left / the left side / to the left of
HSK 1
to remain; to be left over
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *左* | 左* | *左
left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of
HSK 1
"The Wind Blows", a game in which one player calls out a category, all players who match it must change seats, and the person left without a seat becomes "it" ()
lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom) / fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed
left panel (displayed by swiping right from the main panel of the home screen)
unwilling to remain lonely or idle / unwilling to be left out
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剩* | 剩* | *剩
to remain / to be left / to have as remainder
HSK 5
to have money left / remaining money
Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side)
(in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force
left-wing (political)
lower left
left and right hands / (fig.) capable assistant / right-hand man
to remain; to be left over / residual; remnant / residue
HSK 7-9
glancing to left and right (idiom); to look all around
HSK 7-9
left hand; left-hand side
left-hander
Zhou Libo (1908-1979), left-wing journalist, translator and novelist / Zhou Libo (1967-), Chinese stand-up comedian
Wang Ching-wei (1883-1944), left-wing Guomingdang politician, subsequently Japanese collaborator
to be left speechless / unable to respond
left-leaning / progressive
left to return to unchecked growth / overgrown / grown wild
dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom) / left speechless; at a loss for words
left rudder
left side
to turn left (Shanghainese)
left-hand side
the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930
to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left
to turn left
(of one's political views) to prefer left rather than right (idiom during the Cultural Revolution)
upper left
crisp residue left after rendering animal fat; (esp.) pork cracklings
there is not much left
(of a person) left unattended / not cared for
ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye)
warehouse / temporary store / left-luggage office / cloak-room
left speechless by sth perfect (idiom)
the charm lies in what is left unsaid (idiom)
lit. to strike water right and left (idiom) / fig. to turn everything into gold / to have everything going one's way / to benefit from both sides
Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet-trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956
a left-and-right pair of shoes (distinguished from 直腳鞋|直脚鞋, shoes that can be worn on either foot)
anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part)
lit. the original seal has not been disturbed (idiom) / fig. left completely unchanged; untouched; intact
to withdraw (money) / to collect (left luggage) / to extract / to refine
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撇* | 撇* | *撇
to throw / to cast / left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy)
HSK 7-9
Left Bank (in Paris)
"left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them
lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom) / fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal / to keep going while some hope is left
(political) left / left wing / leftist
crop failure / property left with no-one to inherit / sterilization
adventurism (a left-wing error against Mao's line during the 1930s)
to swagger off / to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind
unable to reply (idiom); left speechless / at a loss for words
(typesetting) to not indent / to set the text flush with the left (or top) margin
to lead (sb, or an animal) away / to collect (e.g. a child left in sb's care beforehand) / to take away
energy left over (to do sth else)
Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash
same as 斑竹, mottled bamboo, since according to legend the spots on mottled bamboo are marks left by the tears shed by two of King Shun's concubines (Ehuang 娥皇 and Nüying 女英, known as the Concubines of the Xiang 湘妃) upon learning of his death
leaving none left / (sold etc) out
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *彳* | 彳* | *彳
step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍
to be on one's own; to be left alone / to be left out
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *馘* | 馘* | *馘
(literary) to cut off the left ear of a slain enemy / the severed ear of a slain enemy
clever move from out of left field
Tumed left banner, Mongolian Tümed züün khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
out of ammunition and no food left (idiom); in desperate straits
unspoken dialogue in a play, left for the audience to infer; subtext / (fig.) implicit assertion
Horqin Left Middle banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Dund khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
expert / left-hand side (of a machine) / left-hand side (driver's side) of a vehicle
Horqin Left Rear banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Xoit khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
orphaned of all one's immediate relatives (idiom); no one to rely on / left to one's own devices
to turn left (Shanghainese)
left-to-right
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *璋* | 璋* | *璋
jade tablet used in ceremonies, shaped like the left or right half of a "gui" , also given to male infants to play with
the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930 / abbr. for 中國左翼作家聯盟|中国左翼作家联盟
Bairin Left banner of Baarin Züün khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
New Barag left banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
remnant / residue / material left over
(of a shoe) designed to be worn on a specific foot – either the left or the right
Harqin Left Mongol autonomous county in Chaoyang 朝陽|朝阳, Liaoning
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *衤* | 衤* | *衤
the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145,
Communist Party official whose wife and children have left China to reside in a foreign country
the left is for males, the right is for females (traditional saying)
harvested land left for rotation / an opportunity
lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless (idiom) / fig. people with no one left to rely on
(Marxist jargon) left opportunism; ultra-left deviation ignoring objective conditions and pushing for radical goals prematurely
almost exhausted; nearly depleted; practically nothing left
(eyes) to scan / to glance left and right / to scrutinize / also written 巡睃
left side
Bairin Left banner of Baarin Züün khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
(Internet slang) nothing left to live for
Sonid Left banner in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟, Inner Mongolia
lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom) / fig. great commotion / pandemonium
mixed dish of the food left over from a banquet
to bare one's left arm and take off one's cap as an expression of sorrow
No Child Left Behind Act, USA 2001
the mission in life of a deceased person, left to others to carry on
left hook and right hook (boxing) / the old one-two

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