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The Radical: 左
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Left 左
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Used in these Kanji:
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左
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JLPT 5Joyo 1 |
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left
hidari, SA Left: Hand ナ/ヨ (Shows a hand  with the forearm at the right and three fingers to the left.), right: build, work 工 (image of a carpenter's square)
The hand that assists, (=supports with the carpenter's square) is the left.
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左
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佐
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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assist, help
SA Left: person 人, right: left 左 (The hand that assists, (= supports with the carpenter's square 工) is the left.)
(Normally persons are right-handed and the left 左 hand is supporting.) Persons have the left (hand) for assisting.
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亻
左
工
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惰
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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lazy, idle, indolent
DA Left: feeling 忄, right: left 左, body 月/肉
(When you are a right-handed person:) I feel that my left body (= left body's half) is lazy.
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忄
左
肉
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