Those two departments are sometimes at odds with each other.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
相左
to fail to meet each other
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to fail to meet each other
02
to conflict with each other
03
to be at odds with
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 相左 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 相左 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I have no difficulty finding people who disagree with you.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 相左.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 相左.
Directly before
- 意见相左2
Directly after
- 相左的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 相左
What does 相左 mean in Chinese?
相左 (xiāngzuǒ) means to fail to meet each other.
How do you pronounce 相左?
相左 is pronounced xiāngzuǒ.
Is 相左 an HSK word?
相左 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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