Turn left!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
左转
to turn left
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to turn left
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 左转 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 左转 appears in 10 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Please turn to the left.
You should've turned left.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 左转.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 左转.
Directly before
- 街角左转1
- 然后左转1
- 红绿灯左转1
- 下来左转1
- 拐角左转1
Directly after
- 左转却1
- 左转的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 左转
What does 左转 mean in Chinese?
左转 (zuǒzhuǎn) means to turn left.
How do you pronounce 左转?
左转 is pronounced zuǒzhuǎn.
Is 左转 an HSK word?
左转 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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