Raise up your left hand.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
左手
left hand; left-hand side
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
left hand; left-hand side
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 左手 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 左手 appears in 17 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She writes with her left hand.
My left hand fell asleep.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 左手.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 左手.
Directly before
- 的左手7
- 用左手5
- 因为左手1
- 举起左手1
- 舞台左手1
Directly after
- 左手写字4
- 左手被3
- 左手是2
- 左手传递1
- 左手麻1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 左手
What does 左手 mean in Chinese?
左手 (zuǒshǒu) means left hand; left-hand side.
How do you pronounce 左手?
左手 is pronounced zuǒshǒu.
Is 左手 an HSK word?
左手 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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