左右
zuǒ yòu 3–4
left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence
- Characters
- 2
- 左 · 右
- Syllables
- 2
- zuǒ yòu
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,351
Part of speech: m,f,v
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
他左右看了看。
Tā zuǒ yòu kàn le kàn
He looked left and right.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 左右. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 左zuǒHSK 1
left; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite; variant of 佐
- 右yòuHSK 1
(bound form) right; right-hand side; (bound form) (politics) right of center; (bound form) (old) west; (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
- 右边yòu bianHSK 1
right side; right, to the right
- 左边zuǒ bianHSK 1
left; the left side; to the left of
- 座右铭zuò yòu míngHSK 7
motto; maxim
- 左顾右盼zuǒ gù yòu pànHSK 7
glancing to left and right (idiom); to look all around